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.
Every verse where G5101 appears in the Book of Matthew — 76 distinct verses. 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 3:7 τίς int.pron nom sg masc But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Matthew 5:13 τίνι int.pron dat sg neut "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
- Matthew 5:46 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
- Matthew 5:47 τί int.pron acc sg neut If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
- Matthew 6:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,
- Matthew 6:25 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Matthew 6:27 τίς int.pron nom sg masc "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?
- Matthew 6:28 τί int.pron acc sg neut Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
- Matthew 6:31 τί τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
- Matthew 7:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
- Matthew 7:9 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
- Matthew 8:26 τί int.pron nom sg neut He said to them, "Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Matthew 8:29 τί int.pron nom sg neut Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
- Matthew 9:5 τί int.pron nom sg neut For which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Get up, and walk?'
- Matthew 9:13 τί int.pron nom sg neut But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
- Matthew 10:11 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
- Matthew 10:19 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
- Matthew 11:7 τί int.pron acc sg neut As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
- Matthew 11:8 τί int.pron acc sg neut But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses.
- Matthew 11:9 τί int.pron acc sg neut But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
- Matthew 11:16 Τίνι int.pron dat sg neut "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
- Matthew 12:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut But he said to them, "Haven't you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;
- Matthew 12:7 τί int.pron nom sg neut But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
- Matthew 12:11 τίς int.pron nom sg masc He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?
- Matthew 12:27 τίνι int.pron dat sg masc If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
- Matthew 12:48 τίς τίνες int.pron nom sg masc int.pron nom pl masc But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
- Matthew 14:31 τί int.pron acc sg neut Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
- Matthew 15:32 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
- Matthew 16:8 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
- Matthew 16:13 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
- Matthew 16:15 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
- Matthew 16:26 τί τί int.pron acc sg neut int.pron acc sg neut For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
- Matthew 17:10 τί int.pron nom sg neut His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
- Matthew 17:19 τί int.pron acc sg neut Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
- Matthew 17:25 τί τίνων int.pron acc sg neut int.pron gen pl masc He said, "Yes." When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?"
- Matthew 18:1 τίς int.pron nom sg masc In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
- Matthew 18:12 Τί int.pron acc sg neut "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
- Matthew 19:7 τί int.pron acc sg neut They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
- Matthew 19:16 τί int.pron acc sg neut Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
- Matthew 19:17 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."
- Matthew 19:20 τί int.pron acc sg neut The young man said to him, "All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?"
- Matthew 19:25 τίς int.pron nom sg masc When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"
- Matthew 19:27 τί int.pron nom sg neut Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"
- Matthew 20:6 τί int.pron acc sg neut About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'
- Matthew 20:21 τί int.pron acc sg neut He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
- Matthew 20:22 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
- Matthew 20:32 τί int.pron acc sg neut Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"
- Matthew 21:10 τίς int.pron nom sg masc When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"
- Matthew 21:16 τί int.pron acc sg neut and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"
- Matthew 21:23 τίς int.pron nom sg masc When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
- Matthew 21:26 τί int.pron acc sg neut But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."
- Matthew 21:28 Τί int.pron acc sg neut But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
- Matthew 21:31 τίς int.pron nom sg masc Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
- Matthew 21:40 τί int.pron acc sg neut When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"
- Matthew 22:17 τί int.pron acc sg neut Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?"
- Matthew 22:18 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, "Why do you test me, you hypocrites?
- Matthew 22:20 τίνος int.pron gen sg masc He asked them, "Whose is this image and inscription?"
- Matthew 22:28 τίνος int.pron gen sg masc In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had her."
- Matthew 22:42 τί τίνος int.pron nom sg neut int.pron gen sg masc saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "Of David."
- Matthew 23:17 τίς int.pron nom sg masc You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
- Matthew 23:19 τί int.pron nom sg neut You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
- Matthew 24:3 τί int.pron acc sg neut As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
- Matthew 24:45 Τίς int.pron nom sg masc "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Matthew 26:8 τί int.pron acc sg neut But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
- Matthew 26:10 τί int.pron acc sg neut But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
- Matthew 26:15 τί int.pron acc sg neut and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
- Matthew 26:62 τί int.pron acc sg neut The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
- Matthew 26:65 τί int.pron acc sg neut Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
- Matthew 26:66 τί int.pron acc sg neut What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"
- Matthew 26:68 τίς int.pron nom sg masc saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"
- Matthew 26:70 τί int.pron acc sg neut But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."
- Matthew 27:4 τί int.pron nom sg neut saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
- Matthew 27:17 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"
- Matthew 27:21 τίνα int.pron acc sg masc But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"
- Matthew 27:22 τί int.pron acc sg neut Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
- Matthew 27:23 τί int.pron acc sg neut But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
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.