an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much! Derivation: adverb from the base of G4226;
KJV Usage: how, after (by) what manner (means), that.
πῶς, interrog. adv., correl. of ὅπως, __1. prop., in direct questions, how?: with indic., Refs Mat.12:29, Mrk.3:23, Luk.11:18, Jhn.3:4, al.; καὶ π., Refs Mrk.4:13, Luk.20:44; π. οὖν, Mat.12:26; π. οὐ, Refs Mat.16:11, Luk.12:56; in deliberative questions (cf. Bl., §64, 6), with subjc., Refs Mat.23:33 26:54; π. οὖν, Rom.10:14; π. δέ, Rom.10:14, 15; before ἄν, with optative, Act.8:31. __2. As sometimes in cl. but more freq. and increasingly so in late writers (see WM, §57, 2; Bl., §70, 2; Thumb, MGr., 192; Jannaris, Gr., App., vi, 13f.), = ὅπως, ὥς; __(a) in indirect discourse: with indic., Refs Mat.6:28, Mrk.12:41, Luk.8:36, Jhn.9:15, Act.9:27, al.; with subjc., Refs Mrk.11:18, Luk.12:11; __(b) in exclamations: Refs Mat.21:20, Mrk.10:23, 24 Luk.12:50 18:24, Jhn.11:36. (AS)
Thayer:
1) how, in what way
πῶς
pōs
poce
Adverb from the base of G4226; an interrogitive particle of manner; inwhatway? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
KJV Usage: how, after (by) what manner (means), that. [OccasionallyunexpressedinEnglish .]
G3704 ὅπωςὅπως
hopōs
hop'-oce
From G3739 nad G4459; what (-ever) how, that is, in the mannerthat (as adverb or conjugation of coincidence, intentional or actual)
KJV Usage: because, how, (so) that, to, when.
G4458 πώςπώς
pōs
poce
Adverb from the base of G4225; an enclitic particle of indefiniteness of manner; somehow or anyhow; used only in compounds
KJV Usage: haply, by any (some) means, perhaps. See G1513, G3381.
ποῦ
pou
poo
Genitive case of πός pos , an interrogitive pronoun, (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as G4225 used with the rising slide of inquiry); as adverb of place; at (by implication to) what locality
KJV Usage: where, whither.
G4169 ποῖοςποῖος
poios
poy'-os
From the base of G4226 and G3634; individualizing interrogitive (of character) what sort of, or (of number) which one
KJV Usage: what (manner of), which.
G4217 ποταπόςποταπός
potapos
pot-ap-os'
Apparently from G4219 and the base of G4226; interrogitive whatever, that is, of whatpossible sort
KJV Usage: what (manner of).
G4219 πότεπότε
pote
pot'-eh
From the base of G4226 and G5037; interrogitive adverb, at whattime
KJV Usage: + how long, when.
G4220 πότερονπότερον
poteron
pot'-er-on
Neuter of a comparative of the base of G4226; interrogitive as adverb, which (of two), that is, isit this or that