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τίς

Pronoun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίς

Structure: τιν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. (interrogative, masculine/feminine) who?
  2. (interrogative, in neuter) what?, which?

Declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἰδὼν δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ Ἰωσὴφ εἶπε. τίνεσ σοι οὗτοι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:8)
  • καὶ ἀπέστρεψαν τόν τε Μωυσῆν καὶ Ἀαρὼν πρὸσ Φαραώ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ. πορεύεσθε καὶ λατρεύσατε Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ ὑμῶν. τίνεσ δὲ καὶ τίνεσ εἰσὶν οἱ πορευόμενοι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 10:8)
  • καὶ τίσ ἡ γῆ, εἰσ ἣν οὗτοι ἐγκάθηνται ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, εἰ καλή ἐστιν ἢ πονηρά. καὶ τίνεσ αἱ πόλεισ, ἃσ οὗτοι κατοικοῦσιν ἐν αὐταῖσ, εἰ ἐν τειχήρεσιν ἢ ἐν ἀτειχίστοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 13:20)
  • καὶ εἶπον οἱ σατράπαι τῶν ἀλλοφύλων. τίνεσ οἱ διαπορευόμενοι οὗτοι̣ καὶ εἶπεν Ἀγχοῦσ πρὸσ τοὺσ στρατηγοὺσ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων. οὐχ οὗτοσ Δαυὶδ ὁ δοῦλοσ Σαοὺλ βασιλέωσ Ἰσραήλ̣ γέγονε μεθ̓ ἡμῶν ἡμέρασ τοῦτο δεύτερον ἔτοσ, καὶ οὐχ εὕρηκα ἐν αὐτῷ οὐθὲν ἀφ̓ ἧσ ἡμέρασ ἐνέπεσε πρόσ με καὶ ἕωσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ταύτησ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 29:3)
  • καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσαν Μωυσῇ, ἀλλὰ κατέλιπόν τινεσ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸ πρωί̈. καὶ ἐξέζεσε σκώληκασ καὶ ἐπώζεσε. καὶ ἐπικράνθη ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ Μωυσῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 16:20)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἐξήλθοσάν τινεσ ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ συλλέξαι καὶ οὐχ εὗρον. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 16:27)

Synonyms

  1. who?

Related

Derived

  • τις ( someone, anyone, a certain one)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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