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|txtha=neuter τί, genitive τίνος, interrogative pronoun (from Homer down);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> who, which, what? the Sept. τίς for מִי, τί for מָה;<br /><b class="num">a.</b> used adjectivally, in a direct question: τίς βασιλεύς, τίς γυνή, τί περισσόν, τί σημεῖον, τινα ἤ ποῖον καιρόν, τίς (namely, ἐστιν) ἡ αἰτία, τίς καί ποταπή ἡ γυνή, τίς followed by ἄν, R G; R G); τί with the optative, Tr WH add ἄν, so L brackets); L brackets Tr brackets WH marginal reading add ἄν); with the indicative, τίς ὑπέδειξεν ὑμῖν φυγεῖν; τίνος, τίνι, τινα, τί θέλετε μοι δοῦναι; τί in an indirect question, followed by the indicative, ἄν, Buttmann, § 151,16): ὑμεῖς δέ τινα με λέγετε εἶναι, καί ἡμεῖς τί ποιήσομεν (or ποιήσωμεν), οὗτος δέ τί, β.); add, Winer's Grammar, 274 (257)),Passow, p. 1908b; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B. I:1b.). A question is often asked by τίς as the leading word, when the answer expected is no one: τίς εἰ μή, who ... save (or but) (i. e. no one but), τίς τί ἄρῃ, what each should take, τίς τί διεπραγματεύσατο, Tr WH); ἐγώ δέ τίς ἤμην δυνατός κωλῦσαι τόν Θεόν; who was I? was I able to withstand God? Winer s Grammar, § 66,5, 3; Passow, p. 1909{a}; Ast, Platonic Lexicon, iii., p. 394; Franz V. Fritzsche, Index ad Lucian, dial. deor., p. 164; the same construction occurs in Latin writings; cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 567. τίς is joined with conjunctions: καί τίς, καί, I:2g.); τίς ἄρα, see ἄρα, 1; τίς οὖν, T WH omit; L Tr brackets οὖν); τίς with a partitive genitive: ἐκ and a genitive of the class, Winer's Grammar, § 41b. 4c.); with ἄν added, τίς and τί; see ὁ, II:10a. e. Respecting the neuter τί the following particulars may be noted: α. τί οὗτοι σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; a condensed expression for τί τοῦτο ἐστιν, ὁ οὗτοι σου καταμαρτυροῦσιν; Buttmann, 251 (216) explains this expression differently); also τί τοῦτο ἀκούω περί σου; (R. V.)) what is this (that) I hear of thee? (unless preference be given to the rendering, 'why do I hear this of thee' (see under β. below)), Winer's Grammar, § 66,5, 3). β. τί πρός ἡμᾶς; namely, ἐστιν, what is that to us? (Winer s Grammar, 586 (545); Buttmann, 138 (121)), τί ἐμοί καί σοι; see ἐγώ, 4; τί μοι etc. what have I to do with etc. τί σοι or ὑμῖν δοκεῖ; (what thinkest thou etc.), ὅτι supply in thought δοκεῖ ὑμῖν, to introduce a second question (R. V. What think ye? That he will not come etc.)). τί θέλεις; and τί θέλετε; followed by a subjunctive, our what wilt thou (that) I should etc.: ἵνα); WH omits; Tr brackets θέλετε); τί with the deliberative subjunctive: L marginal reading T Tr text WH πῶς); τί followed by a future: T Tr WH ποιήσωμεν); τί (namely, ἐστιν (Buttmann, 358 (307); Winer's Grammar, § 64,2a.)) ὅτι etc., how is it that, etc. i. e. why etc., R G L; τί γέγονεν, ὅτι etc. (R. V. what is come to pass that etc.), οὗτος δέ τί (namely, ἔσται or γενήσεται (Winer s Grammar, 586 (546); Buttmann, 394 (338))), what will be his lot? τί ἄρα ὁ Πέτρος ἐγένετο; Xenophon, Hell. 2,3, 17 τί ἐσοιτο ἡ πολιτεία). τί equivalent to διά τί, why? wherefore? (Matthiae, § 488,8; Krüger, § 46,3Anm. 4; (Winer's Grammar, § 21,3 N. 2)): ἵνα τί or ἱνατί, see under the word, p. 305a. διά τί (or διατί (see διά, B. II:2a., p. 134 b)), why? wherefore? εἰς τί, to what? to what end? to what purpose? τί οὖν, etc. why then, etc.: οὖν, b. α.; τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν, see ibid. τί γάρ; see γάρ, II:5. γ. Hebraistically for מָה, how, how greatly, how much, with adjectives and verbs in exclamations (Winer s Grammar, § 21 N. 3; cf. Buttmann, 254 (218)): G L Tr; εἰ, I:4 at the end), (τί πολύ τό ἀγαθόν σου; Symm. πότερος, ποτερα, πότερον, whether of two, which of the two: L τί; see below); τί, Matthiae, § 488,4; Winer's Grammar, 169 (159).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> equivalent to ποῖος, ποίᾳ, ποῖον, of what sort, what (kind): ὅς and ὅστις: thus, τινα (L T Tr WH τί) με ὑπονοεῖτε εἶναι, οὐκ εἰμί ἐγώ (where one would expect ὅν). δοθήσεται ὑμῖν, τί λαλήσετε (λαλήσητε T Tr WH; L brackets the clausel, ἑτοίμασον, τί δειπνήσω, οἶδα τινας ἐξελεξάμην, T Tr text WH); especially after ἔχειν (as in the Greek writings): οὐκ ἔχουσι, τί φάγωσιν, Winer s Grammar, § 25,1; Buttmann, 251 (216); on the distinction between the Latin habeo quid and habeo quod cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 565f.