Strong's Concordance potapos: from what country? Original Word: ποταπός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: potapos Phonetic Spelling: (pot-ap-os') Definition: from what country? Usage: of what kind, of what manner. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom prim. roots and Definition from what country? NASB Translation how great (1), what kind (2), what sort (2), what sort of person (1), what wonderful (2). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4217: ποταπόςποταπός ((in Dionysius Halicarnassus, Josephus, Philo, others) for the older ποδαπός (cf. Lob. Phryn., p. 56f; Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 129; Winers Grammar, 24; Curtius, p. 537, 5th edition); according to the Greek grammarians equivalent to ἐκ ποίου δαπεδου, from what region; according to the conjecture of others equivalent to ποῦ ἀπό ((Buttmann, Lexil. 1:126, compares the German wovon)), the delta δ' being inserted for the sake of euphony, as in the Latinprodire, prodesse; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 554f (still others regard (δαπος merely as an ending; cf. Apollonius Dyscolus, Buttmann's edition, the index under the word)), ποταπή, ποταπον; 1. from what country, race, or tribe? so from Aeschylus down. 2. from Demosth. down also equivalent to ποῖος, of what sort or quality? (what manner of?): absolutely of persons, Matthew 8:27; 2 Peter 3:11; with a person noun, Luke 7:39; with names of things, Mark 13:1; Luke 1:29; 1 John 3:1. Apparently from pote and the base of pou; interrogatively, whatever, i.e. Of what possible sort -- what (manner of). see GREEK pote see GREEK pou Englishman's Concordance Matthew 8:27 Adj-NMSGRK: ἐθαύμασαν λέγοντες Ποταπός ἐστιν οὗτος NAS: and said, What kind of a man KJV: saying, What manner of man is INT: marveled saying What kind [of man] is this Mark 13:1 Adj-NMP Mark 13:1 Adj-NFP Luke 1:29 Adj-NMS Luke 7:39 Adj-NFS 2 Peter 3:11 Adj-AMP 1 John 3:1 Adj-AFS Strong's Greek 4217 |