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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
πως
Greek transliteration: 
pōs
Simplified transliteration: 
pos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4452
GK Number: 
4803
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
15
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
particle
Gloss: 
somehow, in some way
Definition: 
enclitic particle, in any way, by any means, Acts 27:12; Rom. 1:10

Greek-English Concordance for πως

Acts 27:12 And since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority made a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow (pōs | πως | particle) they might be able to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
Romans 1:10 always in my prayers, asking if perhaps (pōs | πως | particle) now at last I may be able, by the will of God, to visit you.
Romans 11:14 if somehow (pōs | πως | particle) I could provoke my own countrymen to jealousy and save some of them.
Romans 11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you either.
1 Corinthians 8:9 But take care that (pōs | πως | particle) this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 9:27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, so that (pōs | πως | particle) having preached to others I myself should not be disqualified.
2 Corinthians 2:7 so that you should rather forgive and console him, lest he be swallowed up by excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest perhaps (pōs | πως | particle) if some Macedonians should come with me and not find you ready, we — to say nothing of you — would be humiliated by this confidence.
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid, however, that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be led astray from the simplicity and purity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I would wish, and that I may be found by you not as you would wish; perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, flaring anger, selfish ambition, backbiting, gossiping, conceit, disorder.
Galatians 2:2 I went up in response to a revelation and laid out before them — though privately before the acknowledged leaders — the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, lest somehow (pōs | πως | particle) I was running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 4:11 I am afraid that (pōs | πως | particle) I may have labored over you to no avail.
Philippians 3:11 if somehow (pōs | πως | particle) I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 So because I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith; for fear that somehow (pōs | πως | particle) the tempter had tempted you and our labor had been in vain.