4458 - pós

Strong's Concordance

Original word: -πώς
Transliteration: pós
Definition (short): perhaps
Definition (full): at all

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: an enclitic particle from the same as pós, see also ei and
Definition: at all
NASB Translation: perhaps (4), somehow (3).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Adverb from the base of pou; an enclitic particle of indefiniteness of manner; somehow or anyhow; used only in composition -- haply, by any (some) means, perhaps. See ei pos, mepos. Compare pos.

see GREEK pou

see GREEK pos

see GREEK ei pos

see GREEK mepos

KJV: And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
NASB: Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
KJV: Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
NASB: always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.
KJV: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
NASB: if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
KJV: But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
NASB: But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
KJV: For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
NASB: For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;