τις

τὶς — tìs

τὶς, neuter τὶ, genitive τίνος, indefinite (enclitic) pronoun (bearing the same relation to the interrogative τίς that ποῦ, πῶς, πότε do to the interrogatives ποῦ, πῶς, πότε);

1. a certain, a certain one; used of persons and things concerning which the writer either cannot or will not speak more particularly;

a. joined to nouns substantive, as well as to adjectives and to numerals used substantively; as, Σαμαρείτης τίς, Luk 10:33; ἱερεύς, Luk 1:5; Luk 10:31; ἀνήρ, Luk 8:27; Act 3:2; Act 8:9; Act 14:8; ἄνθρωπος, Mat 18:12; Luk 10:30; Act 9:33; plural Jud 1:4; τόπος, Luk 11:1; Act 27:8; κώμη, Luk 10:38; Luk 17:12, and in many other passages; with proper names (as τάς Σίμων), Mar 15:21; Luk 23:26; Act 9:43; Act 21:16; Act 25:19. δύο τινες with a partitive genitive, Luk 7:18(19); Act 23:23; ἕτερος, Act 8:34; plural Act 27:1; it indicates that the thing with which it is connected belongs to a certain class and resembles it: ἀπαρχήν τινα, a kind of firstfuits, Jas 1:18, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 25, 2 a; joined to adjectives of quality and quantity, it requires us to conceive of their degree as the greatest possible; as, φοβερά τίς ἐκδοχή, a certain fearful expectation, Heb 10:27, where see Delitzsch (or Alford) (δεινή τίς δύναμις, Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 12; other examples from the Greek writings are given in Winers Grammar, § 25, 2c.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. II. 8); Matthiae, § 487, 4; (Bernhardy (1829), p. 442); incredibilis quidam amor, Cicero, pro Lig c. 2, 5); μέγας τίς, Act 8:9.

b. it stands alone, or substantively: universally, τίς one, a certain one, Mat 12:47 (but WH in marginal reading only); Luk 9:49; Luk 9:57; Luk 13:6; Luk 13:23; Joh 11:1; Act 5:25; Act 18:7; plural τινες, certain, some: Luk 13:1; Act 15:1; Rom 3:8; 1Co 4:18; 1Co 15:34; 2Co 3:1; Gal 2:12; 2Th 3:11; 1Ti 1:3; 1Ti 1:19; 1Ti 4:1; 1Ti 5:15; 1Ti 6:10; 2Pe 3:9; τινες ἐν ὑμῖν, some among you, 1Co 15:12; a participle may be added — either with the article, τινες οἱ etc., Luk 18:9; 2Co 10:2; Gal 1:7; or without it, 1Ti 6:21; τίς and τινες with a partitive genitive: Luk 11:1; Luk 14:15; 2Co 10:12.

2.

a. joined to nouns and signifying some: χρόνον τινα, some time, a while, 1Co 16:7; ἡμέραι τινες, some (or certain) days, Act 9:19; Act 10:48; Act 15:36; Act 16:12; Act 24:24; Act 25:13; μέρος τί, Luk 11:36 (here WH marginal reading brackets τί); Act 5:2; 1Co 11:18; τί βρώσιμον, Luk 24:41; add, Mar 16:18; Joh 5:14; Act 17:21; Act 23:20; Act 28:21; Heb 11:40; βραχύ τί, Act 5:34 (where L T Tr WH omit τί); Heb 2:7; περισσότερον τί, 2Co 10:8; μικρόν τί, 2Co 11:16; it serves modestly to qualify or limit the measure of things, even though that is thought to be ample or large (cf. 1 a. under the end): κοινωνία τίς, a certain contribution, Rom 15:26; καρπός, Rom 1:13; χάρισμα, ibid. 11. with a participle, ἀθετήσας τάς, if anyone has set at nought, Heb 10:28 (but this example belongs rather under the next entry).

b. standing alone, or used substantively, and signifying someone, something; anyone, anything: universally, Mat 12:29; Mar 9:30; Mar 11:16; Luk 8:46; Joh 2:25; Joh 6:46; Act 17:25; Rom 5:7; 1Co 15:35; 2Co 11:20; Heb 3:4; Jas 2:18; 2Pe 2:19, etc.; τίς ἐξ ὑμῶν, Jas 2:16; ἐξ ὑμῶν τίς, Heb 3:13; with a partitive genitive, Luk 7:36; Luk 11:45; 1Co 6:1; neuter τί with a partitive genitive, Act 4:32; Rom 15:18; Eph 5:27. εἰς τίς, see εἷς, 3, p. 187a. it answers not infrequently to the indefinite one (German man, Frenchon): Mar 8:4; Joh 2:25; Joh 16:30; Rom 8:24; Heb 5:12 (where some (viz. R G T Tr (cf. Winers Grammar, 169 (160); R. V. marginal reading which be the rudiments etc.; cf.

c. below)) incorrectly read τινα (yet cf. Buttmann, 268 (230) note, cf. 260 (223) note)), etc.; cf. Matthiae, § 487, 2. εἰ τίς, see εἰ, III. 16; ἐάν τίς, τίνος, etc.: Mat 21:3; Mat 24:23; Mar 12:19; Luk 16:31; Joh 6:51; Joh 7:17; Joh 8:51; Joh 9:22; Joh 9:31; Joh 10:9; John 11:9f, 57; Joh 12:26; Joh 12:47; Act 9:2 (here Tdf. ἄν);; 1Co 5:11; 1Co 8:10; 1Co 10:28; Col 3:13; 1Ti 1:8; 2Ti 2:5; 2Ti 2:21; Jas 2:14; Jas 5:19; 1Jn 2:15; 1Jn 4:20; 1Jn 5:16; Rev 3:20; Rev 22:18 f; ἄν τινων, Joh 20:23 (here Lachmann ἐάν); ἐάν μή τίς, Joh 3:3; Joh 3:5; Joh 15:6; Act 8:31; οὐ... τίς, not... anyone, i. e. no one, Joh 10:28; οὔτε... τίς, Act 28:21; οὐδέ... τίς, Mat 11:27; Mat 12:19; οὐκ... ὑπό τίνος, 1Co 6:12; μή τίς, lest any (man), Mat 24:4; Mar 13:5; Act 27:42; 1Co 1:15; 1Co 16:11; 2Co 8:20; 2Co 11:16; 2Co 12:6; Eph 2:9; 1Th 5:15; Heb 4:11; Heb 12:15; hath any (one), Joh 4:33 (cf. μήτις, 2); μή τινα, 2Co 12:17; πρός τό μή... τινα, 1Th 2:9; ὥστε... μή τινα, Mat 8:28; like the Latinaliquis, it is used with the verb εἶναι emphatically: to be somebody, i. e. somebody of importance, some eminent personage (Winers Grammar, § 25, 2 c.; Buttmann, § 127, 16), Act 5:36 (see examples from the Greek writings in Passow, under the word, B. II. 2 d.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. A. II. 5); on the phrase τί εἶναι see e. β. below). Plural, τινες, some (of that number or class of men indicated by the context): Mar 14:4; Mar 14:65; Luk 21:5; Joh 13:29; τινες are distinguished from οἱ πάντες, 1Co 8:7; 1Co 9:22. τινες with an anarthrous participle, Mar 14:57; Luk 13:1; ταῦτα τινες ἦτε, such (of this sort) were some of you, 1Co 6:11 (cf. οὗτος, I. 2 d.); τινες with a partitive genitive, Mat 9:3; Mat 12:38; Mat 28:11; Mar 7:1; Mar 12:13; Luk 6:2; Luk 19:39; Act 5:15; Act 17:18; Act 17:28, and often; followed by ἐκ and a partitive genitive, Luk 11:15; Joh 6:64; Joh 7:25; Joh 7:44; Joh 9:16; Joh 11:37; Joh 11:46; Act 11:20; Act 15:24, etc.; Paul employs τινες by meiosis in reference to many, when he would mention something censurable respecting them in a mild way: Rom 3:3; 1Co 10:7-10.

c. Sometimes the subject τίς, τινες, or the object τινα, τινας, is not added to the verb, but is left to be understood by the reader (cf. Buttmann, § 132, 6; (Winer's Grammar, §§ 58, 2; 64, 4)): before the partitive genitive Act 21:16; before ἀπό, Mat 27:9 (1Ma 7:33); before ἐκ, Mat 23:34; Luk 21:16; (Joh 1:24 T Tr WH (cf. R. V. marginal reading); L T Tr WH (cf. R. V. marginal reading));; (2Jn 1:4; Rev 2:10). (Other examples of its apparent omission are the following: as subject — of a finite verb (Winer's Grammar, § 58, 9 b. β.; Buttmann, § 129, 19): φησί, 2Co 10:10 R G T Tr text WH text; ὅταν λαλῇ τό ψεῦδος, Joh 8:44 (according to one interpretation; see R. V. margin); of an infinitive: οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε γράφειν ὑμῖν, 1Th 4:9 R G T Tr text WH; χρείαν ἔχετε τοῦ διδάσκειν ὑμᾶς, τινα etc. Heb 5:12 R G T Tr (but see 2 b. above). as object: δός μοι πιεῖν, Joh 4:7; cf. Mar 5:43. See Kühner, § 352 g.; Krüger, § 55, 3, 21.)

d. It stands in partitions: τίς... ἕτερος δέ, one... and another, 1Co 3:4; plural τινες (μέν)... τινες (δέ), Luk 9:7 f.; Act 17:18; Php 1:15; cf. Passow, under the word, B. II. 2e.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. A. II. 11. c.).

e. Besides what has been already adduced, the following should be noticed respecting the use of the neuter τί; α. universally, anything, something: Mat 5:23; Mar 8:23; Luk 11:54; Act 25:5; Act 25:11; 1Co 10:31, and very often; οὐδέ... τί, neither... anything, 1Ti 6:7. β. like the Latinaliquid it is used emphatically, equivalent to something of consequence, something extraordinary (cf.

b. above): in the phrase εἶναι τί, 1Co 3:7; Gal 2:6; Gal 6:3; cf. Passow, under the word, B. II. 2 d.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. II. 5); and on the Latinaliquid esse see Klotz, Handwörterb. d. Latin Spr. 1:298b; (Harpers' Dictionary, under the word aliquis, II. C. 1) (on the other hand, in 1Co 10:19 τί εἶναι means to be anything, actually to exist); εἰδέναι (L T Tr WH ἐγνωκέναι) τί, i. e. much, 1Co 8:2.

3. As respects the position of the word, when used adjectivally it stands — now before its noun (τίς ἀνήρ, Act 3:2; Act 14:8; τίς μαθητής, Act 9:10; τινας ἑτέρους, Act 27:1; τί ἀγαθόν, Joh 1:47); now, and indeed far more frequently, after it, as ἱερεύς τίς, Luk 1:5; Luk 10:31; ἀνήρ τίς, Luk 8:27, etc., etc. Τίνες, used substantively, is found at the beginning of a sentence in Mat 27:47; Luk 6:2; Joh 13:29; 1Ti 5:24; Php 1:15; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 25, 2 Note, and 559 (520). The particle δέ may stand between it and its substantive (as Σαμαρείτης δέ τίς), as in Luk 10:33; Luk 10:38; Act 8:9; Heb 10:27.