τὶςtìs

some or any person or object

Greek (New Testament) · G5100

Meanings

I. As as a noun

1. one, a certain one: Luke 9:49, John 11:1, Acts 5:25, and elsewhere; plural, τίνες, certain, some: Luke 13:1, Acts 15:1, Romans 3:8, and elsewhere

2. someone, anyone, something, anything: Matthew 12:29, Mark 9:30, Luke 8:46, John 2:25, Acts 17:25, Romans 5:7, and elsewhere; = indef., one (French on), Mark 8:4, John 2:25, Romans 8:24, and elsewhere; plural, τινες, some, Mark 14:4, and elsewhere

II. As adj.

1. a certain: Matthew 18:12, Luke 1:5, Luke 8:27, Acts 3:2, and elsewhere; with proper names, Mark 15:21, Luke 23:26, and elsewhere; with genitive partit., Luke 7:19, and elsewhere

2. some: Mark 16:18, John 5:14, Acts 17:21, Acts 24:24, Hebrews 11:40, and elsewhere

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 524 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 5:23 “So if you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you,
  • Matthew 8:28 When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They came out of the tombs and were so violent that no one could go through that area.
  • Matthew 9:3 But some of the teachers of religious law said to themselves, “That’s blasphemy! Does he think he’s God?”
  • Matthew 11:27 “My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
  • Matthew 12:19 He will not fight or shout or raise his voice in public.
  • Matthew 12:29 For who is powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods? Only someone even stronger—someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house.
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.