King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4226
Transliteration: pou
Phonetic Spelling: (poo)
Part of Speech: Adverb, Interrogative
Short Definition: where?
Meaning: where?
ποῦ (cf. Curtius, § 631), an interrogative adverb, from Homer down, the Sept. for אַיֵה, אָנָה, אַי, where? in what place? a. in direct questions: Matthew 2:2; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 17:17, 37; Luke 22:9, 11; John 1:38(39);; ποῦ ἐστιν ((ἐστιν sometimes unexpressed)), in questions indicating that a person or thing is gone, or cannot be found, is equivalent to it is nowhere, does not exist: Luke 8:25; Romans 3:27; 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 12:17, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Galatians 4:15 L T Tr WH; 2 Peter 3:4; ποῦ φανεῖται (A. V. where shall ... appear) equivalent to there will be no place for him, 1 Peter 4:18.
Word Summary
pou: where?
Original Word: ποῦTransliteration: pou
Phonetic Spelling: (poo)
Part of Speech: Adverb, Interrogative
Short Definition: where?
Meaning: where?
Strong's Concordance
where, whither. Genitive case of an interrogative pronoun pos (what) otherwise obsolete (perhaps the same as pou used with the rising slide of inquiry); as adverb of place; at (by implication, to) what locality -- where, whither.
see GREEK pou
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4226: ποῦποῦ (cf. Curtius, § 631), an interrogative adverb, from Homer down, the Sept. for אַיֵה, אָנָה, אַי, where? in what place? a. in direct questions: Matthew 2:2; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12, 14; Luke 17:17, 37; Luke 22:9, 11; John 1:38(39);
b. in indirect questions, for the relative ὅπου (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 57, 2 at the end): followed by the indicative, Matthew 2:4; Mark 15:47; John 1:39 (40); c. joined to verbs of going or coming, for ποῖ in direct question (cf. our colloquial, where for whither; see Winers Grammar, § 54, 7; Buttmann, 71 (62)): John 7:35 (cf. Winers Grammar, 300 (281); Buttmann, 358 (307));