τίς
who
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Interrogative pronoun
- Asks a question (“who?”, “what?”).
- Indefinite pronoun
- Refers to someone or something unspecified (“someone,” “anything”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
45 verses where G5101 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Luke. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
- Luke 1:66 τί int.pron nom sg neut All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
- Luke 2:49 τί int.pron nom sg neut He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"
- Luke 3:7 τίς int.pron nom sg masc He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Luke 4:34 τί τίς int.pron nom sg neut int.pron nom sg masc saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
- Luke 4:36 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
- Luke 5:21 τίς τίς int.pron nom sg masc int.pron nom sg masc The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
- Luke 5:23 τί int.pron nom sg neut Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
- Luke 7:39 τίς int.pron nom sg fem Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
- Luke 7:42 τίς int.pron nom sg masc When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
- Luke 7:49 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
- Luke 8:9 τίς int.pron nom sg fem Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
- Luke 8:25 τίς int.pron nom sg masc He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
- Luke 8:28 τί int.pron nom sg neut When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
- Luke 8:30 τί int.pron nom sg neut Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.
- Luke 8:45 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
- Luke 9:9 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.
- Luke 9:46 τίς int.pron nom sg masc There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.
- Luke 10:22 τίς τίς int.pron nom sg masc int.pron nom sg masc Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
- Luke 10:29 τίς int.pron nom sg masc But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"
- Luke 10:36 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?"
- Luke 11:5 τίς int.pron nom sg masc He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
- Luke 12:14 τίς int.pron nom sg masc But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
- Luke 12:25 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
- Luke 12:42 τίς int.pron nom sg masc The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
- Luke 14:28 Τίς int.pron nom sg masc For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
- Luke 14:31 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 15:4 τίς int.pron nom sg masc "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
- Luke 15:8 τίς int.pron nom sg fem Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
- Luke 15:26 τί int.pron nom sg neut He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.
- Luke 16:11 τίς int.pron nom sg masc If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
- Luke 16:12 τίς int.pron nom sg masc If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
- Luke 17:7 Τίς int.pron nom sg masc But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say, when he comes in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,'
- Luke 18:26 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
- Luke 18:36 τί int.pron nom sg neut Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.
- Luke 19:3 τίς int.pron nom sg masc He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.
- Luke 19:15 τίς τί int.pron nom sg masc int.pron acc sg neut "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.
- Luke 20:2 τίς int.pron nom sg masc They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?"
- Luke 20:17 τί int.pron nom sg neut But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the chief cornerstone?'
- Luke 21:7 τί int.pron nom sg neut They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
- Luke 22:23 τίς int.pron nom sg masc They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.
- Luke 22:24 τίς int.pron nom sg masc There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
- Luke 22:27 τίς int.pron nom sg masc For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves.
- Luke 22:64 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"
- Luke 23:31 τί int.pron nom sg neut For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
- Luke 24:17 τίνες int.pron nom pl masc He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?"
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
τις — transliterated tís — is a Greek word carrying the sense “who.” Debuting at Matthew 3:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 482 verses in 20 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5101 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 482
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 482 distinct verses.
- 20 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 20 of 27 New Testament books.
- #36
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Greek words (rank 36 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 482 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 482 distinct verses.
- Gospels 308 verses · 64%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 154 verses · 32%
- Pauline corpus 86 verses · 18%
- Johannine 83 verses · 17%
- Revelation 13 verses · 3%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 12 verses · 2%
- Hebrews 10 verses · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: What 260×, Who 101×, Why 67×
- American Standard Version: What 246×, Who 107×, Why 76×
- Berean Standard Bible: What 232×, Who 118×, Why 78×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: What 271×, Who 118×, Why 93×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5101 across 523 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 14 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5101 across 541 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5101 across 502 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 58 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5101 across 611 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- who, which, what
Word origin
Derived from τις (tìs) (G5100) — a certain.
Probably emphatic of G5100 ; an interrogitive pronoun who which or what (in direct or indirect questions): - every man how (much) + no (-ne thing) what (manner thing) where ([-by -fore -of -unto -with -withal]) whether which who (-m -se) why.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms G5101 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
