τίς
who
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.
41 verses where G5101 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Mark. 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.
Mark
- Mark 2:7 τί τίς int.pron acc sg neut int.pron nom sg masc "Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
- Mark 2:8 τί int.pron acc sg neut Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
- Mark 2:24 τί int.pron acc sg neut The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
- Mark 2:25 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to them, "Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry--he, and they who were with him?
- Mark 4:24 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to them, "Take heed what you hear. With whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and more will be given to you who hear.
- Mark 5:35 τί int.pron acc sg neut While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"
- Mark 5:39 τί int.pron acc sg neut When he had entered in, he said to them, "Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep."
- Mark 6:24 τί int.pron acc sg neut She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
- Mark 6:36 τί int.pron acc sg neut Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."
- Mark 8:1 τί int.pron acc sg neut In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
- Mark 8:2 τί int.pron acc sg neut "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
- Mark 8:17 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?
- Mark 8:27 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
- Mark 8:29 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ."
- Mark 8:36 τί int.pron acc sg neut For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
- Mark 8:37 τί int.pron acc sg neut For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
- Mark 9:6 τί int.pron acc sg neut For he didn't know what to say, for they were very afraid.
- Mark 9:16 τί int.pron acc sg neut He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
- Mark 9:33 τί int.pron acc sg neut He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"
- Mark 10:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
- Mark 10:17 τί int.pron acc sg neut As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
- Mark 10:18 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one-- God.
- Mark 10:36 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
- Mark 10:38 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
- Mark 10:51 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."
- Mark 11:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."
- Mark 11:5 τί int.pron acc sg neut Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the young donkey?"
- Mark 12:9 τί int.pron acc sg neut What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
- Mark 13:11 τί int.pron acc sg neut When they lead you away and deliver you up, don't be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
- Mark 14:4 τί int.pron acc sg neut But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
- Mark 14:6 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
- Mark 14:36 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."
- Mark 14:40 τί int.pron acc sg neut Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.
- Mark 14:60 τί int.pron acc sg neut The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
- Mark 14:63 τί int.pron acc sg neut The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?
- Mark 14:64 τί int.pron acc sg neut You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
- Mark 14:68 τί int.pron acc sg neut But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
- Mark 15:12 τί int.pron acc sg neut Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
- Mark 15:14 τί int.pron acc sg neut Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
- Mark 15:24 τίς τί int.pron nom sg masc int.pron acc sg neut Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
- Mark 15:34 τί int.pron acc sg neut At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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.