STRONGS NUMBER G3843


Word Summary
pantōs: altogether, by all means
Original Word: πάντως
Transliteration: pantōs
Phonetic Spelling: (pan'-toce)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: altogether, by all means
Meaning: altogether, by all means
Strong's Concordance
altogether, by all means, no doubt.

Adverb from pas; entirely; specially, at all events, (with negative, following) in no event -- by all means, altogether, at all, needs, no doubt, in (no) wise, surely.

see GREEK pas

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3843: πάντως

πάντως (from πᾶς), adverb, altogether (Latinomnino), i. e.

a. in any and every way, by all means: 1 Corinthians 9:22 (so from Herodotus down).

b. doubtless, surely, certainly: Luke 4:23; Acts 18:21 (Rec.); ; 1 Corinthians 9:10 (Tobit 14:8; Aelian v. h. 1, 32; by Plato in answers (cf. our colloquial by all means)). with the negative οὐ, α. where οὐ is postpositive, in no wise, not at all: 1 Corinthians 16:12 (often so as far back as Homer). β. when the negative precedes, the force of the adverb is restricted: οὐ πάντως, not entirely, not altogether, 1 Corinthians 5:10; not in all things, not in all respects, Romans 3:9; (rarely equivalent to πάντως οὐ, as in Ep. ad Diogn. 9 [ET] 'God οὐ πάντως ἐφηδόμενος τοῖς ἁμαρτήμασιν ἡμῶν.' Likewise, οὐδέν πάντως in Herodotus 5, 34. But in Theognis, 305 edition, Bekker οἱ κακοί οὐ πάντως κακοί ἐκ γαστρός γεγόνασι κτλ. is best translated not wholly, not entirely. Cf. Winers Grammar, 554f (515f); Buttmann, 389f (334f) (on whose interpretation of Romans, the passage cited, although it is that now generally adopted, see Weiss in Meyer 6te Aufl.)).