πω
pō
somehow
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word πω (pō) is a particle appearing 16 times in the Bible, with its primary definition captured as "somehow." This indicates that the word is often used to convey a sense of unexpectedness or an unusual manner in which something occurs. Analyzing the occurrences of πω, we can see that it is frequently used in connection with divine action or the miraculous. In these contexts, πω highlights the surprising nature of God's intervention or the unexpected way in which divine purposes unfold. This range of usage suggests that πω is particularly relevant when describing the way God's sovereignty intersects with human experience. The significance of πω lies in its portrayal of the mysterious and unpredictable aspects of divine activity. By emphasizing the unexpected nature of God's ways, πω underscores the reality that human understanding and control are limited, and that God's purposes often surpass human comprehension.
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Occurrences in Scripture
16 total occurrences across the text
Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking southwest and northwest.
Acts 27:29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
Romans 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
Romans 11:14if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Romans 11:21for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.
1 Corinthians 8:9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
2 Corinthians 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
2 Corinthians 9:4lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
2 Corinthians 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
Galatians 2:2I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
Galatians 4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
Philippians 3:11if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.