Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

τίς

Vocabulary form: 
tivV, tiv
Definition: 
who? what? which? why?
Frequency: 
555
GK: 
5515
Root: 
tin
Mnemonics: 
With accent, the word is very specific.
Notes: 
When this word means "why?" it will usually be in the neuter (tiv).

Biblical Concordance

Luke 23:31 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what (ti | τί | nom sg neut) will happen when it is dry?”
Luke 23:34 And Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) they are doing.” Then in order to divide up his clothing they cast lots.
Luke 24:5 The women were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you look for the living among the dead?
Luke 24:17 He asked them, “What (tines | τίνες | nom pl masc) are these matters you are discussing with each other as you walk along?” They came to a stop, looking sad.
Luke 24:38 And he said to them, “Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) are you so troubled and why are doubts arising in your hearts?
John 1:19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) are you?”
John 1:21 So they asked him, “Then who (ti | τί | nom sg neut) are you? Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he replied, “No.”
John 1:22 Then they said to him, “Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) are you? Tell us so we can give an answer to those who sent us. What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you say about yourself?”
John 1:25 So they asked him, saying, “Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
John 1:38 When Jesus turned around and saw them following him, he said to them, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you want?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
John 2:4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what (ti | τί | nom sg neut) is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”
John 2:18 The Jews therefore replied, saying to him, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
John 2:25 and because he had no need that anyone should give evidence concerning man, for he himself knew what (ti | τί | nom sg neut) was in man.
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, saying, “If you had known the gift of God and who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) it was that said to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:27 Just then his disciples came back. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman; however, no one said to her, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you want?” or to him, “Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) are you talking with her?”
John 5:12 They questioned him, “Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
John 5:13 However, the man who had been healed did not know who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) it was, for Jesus had slipped away, there being a crowd in that place.
John 6:6 He said this to test him, because he himself knew what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) he was about to do.
John 6:9 “There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what (ti | τί | nom sg neut) are they for so many?”
John 6:28 Therefore they said to him, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) must we do to carry out the works God requires?”
John 6:30 Then they said to him, “So what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) miraculous sign will you perform that we may see it and believe in you? What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) will you do?
John 6:60 Therefore, when a number of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) can understand it?”
John 6:64 But there are some among you who do not believe.” For from the beginning Jesus knew those (tines | τίνες | nom pl masc) who would not believe, and who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) it was who would betray him.
John 6:68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom (tina | τίνα | acc sg masc) would we go? You have the words of eternal life,
John 7:19 “Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) are you trying to kill me?”
John 7:20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) is trying to kill you?”
John 7:36 What (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) can it mean, this saying of his: ‘You will look for me but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am you cannot go’?”
John 7:45 Then the temple guards went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”
John 7:51 “Surely our law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and finds out what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) he is doing, does it?”
John 8:5 Moses commanded us in the law to stone to death such women. But you, what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you say?”
John 8:25 So they said to him, “Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
John 8:43 Why do you not understand the way I speak? It is because you are unable to grasp my message.
John 8:46 Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am speaking the truth, why don’t you believe me?
John 8:53 Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham, are you? He died as did the prophets. Who (tina | τίνα | acc sg masc) are you making yourself out to be?”
John 9:2 And his disciples questioned him, saying, “Rabbi, who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
John 9:17 So they spoke again to the blind man, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you say about him, since it was your eyes that he opened?” The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
John 9:21 but how it is that he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) opened his eyes. Ask him, he is an adult. He will speak for himself.”
John 9:26 Therefore they said to him, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
John 9:27 He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen. Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples too, do you?”
John 9:36 The man replied, saying, “And who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him.”
John 10:6 Jesus told them this figurative story, but they did not understand what (tina | τίνα | nom pl neut) he was saying to them.
John 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He is demon-possessed and out of control. Why (ti | τί | acc sg neut) are you listening to him?”
John 11:47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council together and said, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) are we going to do? For this man is performing many signs.
John 11:56 They were looking for Jesus and were talking with one another as they were standing in the temple, “What (ti | τί | acc sg neut) do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?”
John 12:5 “Why was not this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
John 12:27 “Now is my heart deeply troubled. And what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) am I to say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? But for this very purpose I have come to this hour!
John 12:34 The crowd responded, “We have heard from the law that the Christ is to remain forever; so how is it that you are saying that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) is this Son of Man?”
John 12:38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who (tis | τίς | nom sg masc) has believed what they heard from us, and to (tini | τίνι | dat sg masc) whom (tini | τίνι | dat sg masc) has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) to say and what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) to speak.
John 13:12 So when Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer garments, he sat down at the table again and said to them, “Do you understand what (ti | τί | acc sg neut) I have just done for you?

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