Quick Definition
τις, τι Indef.pr. any one, some one
Strong's Definition
an enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object
KJV Usage: a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
pidf. | τὶ · gen. τινός · dat. τινί · acc. τινά
92.12 · Discourse Referentials · Whom or What Spoken or Written About
someone, something, anyone, a, anything a reference to someone or something indefinite, spoken or written about
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τὶς, τὶ. ἘΣ what follows, εἰ καί lays less emphasis upon it; although it is evident that εἰ καί can often be substituted for καὶ ei.” Cf. Herm. Vig. p. 829 sq.; W. 444 (413); Ellic. on Phil. ii. 17; Schmalfeld, Griech. Syntax, § 41; Paley, Grk. Particles, p. 31]. 8. εἰ μή, a. in a conditional protasis, with the same sequence of moods and tenses as the simple εἰ, see 1. above, if not, unless, except, [W. 477 (444) sqq.; B. 345 (297)]: Mt. xxiv. 22; Jn. ix. 33; | xv. 22, 24; Ro. vii. 7, ete. b. it serves, with the entire. following sentence, to limit or correct what has just been said, only, save that, (Lat. nisi quod), [B. 359 (308) ]: Mk. vi. 5; 1 Co. vii. 17 (where Paul by the addition εἰ μὴ ἑκάστῳ κτλ. strives to prevent any one in applying what had been said a little while before, viz. οὐ δεδούλωται . . ἐν τοιούτοις to his own case, from going too far) ; in ironical answers, unless perchance, save forsooth that, (Kiihner ὃ 577, 7; [Jelf § 860, 5 Obs.]): εἰ μὴ χρήζομεν κτλ. 2 Co. iii. 1 Ree. ο. εἰ μή very often coalesce into one particle, as it were, which takes the same verb as the preceding negation: unless, i. q. except, save, [Kiihner § 577, 8; Β. 869 (308)]; α. univ.: Mt. xi. 27; xii. 39; Mk. ii. 26; viii. 14; Jn. iii. 13; Ro. vii. 7; xiii. 1, 8; 1 Co. viii. 4; xii. 3; 2 Co. xii. 5, ete. as in classic Greek, μόνος, μόνον, is added pleonastically: Mt. xvii. 8; xxi. 19; xxiv. 36; Acts xi. 19; Phil. iv. 15; Rev. xiii. 17, ete. β. after negatives joined to nouns it is so used as to refer to the negative alone (hence many have regarded it as used for ἀλλά [i.e. as being not exceptive but adversative]), and can be rendered in Lat. sed tantum, but only: Mt. xii. 4 (οὐκ ἐξὸν ἦν αὐτῷ φαγεῖν οὐδὲ τοῖς μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ, εἰ μὴ τοῖς ἱερεῦσι μόνοις, as if οὐκ ἐξὸν ἦν φαγεῖν alone preceded) ; Lk. iv. 26 sq.; Ro. xiv. 14; Rey. ix. 4; xxi. 27 (ἐὰν μή 15 so used in Gal. ii. 16; on Gal. i. 19 see Ἰάκωβος, 3); cf. Fritzsche on Rom. vol. iii. p. 195; [see ἐάν, I. 3 c. and reff.]. γ. when preceded by the interrogative τίς in questions having a negative force: Mk. τ. 1 ke 21. Ros χὶς 15)5) 1 Coie 11: 2| Conary ὃ: xis 13; Heb. iii. 18; 1 Jn.ii. 22; v.5; (Xen. oec. 9,1; Arstph. eqq. 615). δ. with other conjunctions: εἰ μὴ ἵνα, Jn. x.10; εἰ μὴ ὅταν, Mk. ix. 9; ri ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ὅτι etc., 2 Co. xii. 13; Eph. iv. 9. e. it has its own verb, and makes a phrase by itself: ὃ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλο, εἰ μή τινές εἰσιν οἱ ταράσσοντες ὑμᾶς which means nothing else, save that there are some who trouble you, Gal. i. 7 [so Winer (Com. ad loc.) et al.; but see Meyer]. ἃ. ἐκτὸς εἰ μή, arising from the blending of the two expressions εἰ μή and ἐκτὸς εἰ, like the Lat. nisi si equiv. to praeterquam si, except in case, except: 1 Tim. v. 19; with the indic. aor. 1 Co. xv. 2; with the subjune. pres. 1 Co. xiv. δ; (Leian. de luctu c. 19; dial. meret. 1, 2, ete.). Cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 459; W.§ 65, 8 ο. ; [B. indexs. v. ἐκτὸς εἰ μή]. 9. εἰ μήν, assuredly, surely, in oaths: Heb. vi. 14 LT Tr WH (for RG# μήν [q. v-]) and several times in Sept. as Ezek. xxxiii. 27; xxxiv. 8; [ef. xxxvi. 5; XXxvili. 19; 1 K. xxi. (xx.) 23], ete.; here, if εἰ did not come from 7 by itacism, εἰ μήν must be explained as a confusion of the Hebraistic εἰ μή (see I. 5 above) and the Grk. formula of asseveration 4 μήν ; cf. Bleek on Heb. εἰ 112 vol. ii. 2 p. 248 sqq., and what Fritzsche says on the other side, Com. on Bar. ii. 29; Judithi. 12; [cf. Kneucker on Bar. 1. c.; B. 359 (308); Τὰ Proleg. p.59; WH. App. p. 151; B. D.s. v. New Testament, I. 811. 10. εἰ μή τι Or μήτι, unless in some respect, unless perchance, unless indeed: ironically, with the indic. pres. 2 Co. xiii. 5; hesitatingly, with the subjune. aor. Lk. ix. 13; cf. Meyer ad loc. [also W. 294 (276); B. 221 (191)]; εἰ μή τι ἄν: 1 Co. vil. 5, see ἄν, LV. 11. εἰ ov (fully discussed by W. ὃ 55, 2c. and B. 345 (297) sqq.), ifnot; this combination is used much more frequently in the N. T. than in the more elegant Grk. auth.; it differs from εἰ μή in this, that in the latter μή belongs to the particle εἰ, while in εἰ οὐ the οὐ refers to some following word and denies it emphatically, not infrequently even coalescing with it intoasingleidea. a. when the idea to which οὐ belongs is antithetic a. toa positive term, either preceding or following: εἰ δὲ οὐ μοιχεύεις φονεύεις δέ, Jas. ii. 11 fin R G the fut.]; εἰ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς . .. οὐκ ἐφείσατο, .. ἀλλὰ. δώσει... διά γε - « « δώσει, Lk. xi. 8; εἰ οὐ Td... εἰ δὲ ποιῶ, Jn. χ. 87 564. ; εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε .... εἰ δὲ - - - οὐ πιorevere, Jn. ν. 46 54.; add, Mk. xi. 26 RGL; Ro. viii. 9; 1Co.ix. 2; xi.6; Jas.iii.2. B. to some other idea which is negative (formally or virtually): εἰ... . . παρέδωκεν εἰς κρίσιν, 2 Pet. 11. 4 sq.; εἰ καὶ οὐ + OUK dxovovow, ove... πεισθήσονται, Lk. xvi. 31; ei... οὐκ ἐφείσατο, οὐδὲ σοῦ φείσεται [ Rec. -σηται], Ro. xi. 21; add, 1 Co. xv. 13, 15-17; 2 Th. iii. 10; foll. in the apodosis by a question having the force of a negative: Lk. xvi. 11 sq.; Jn. iii. 12; 1 Tim. iii.5. 0. the od denies with emphasis the idea to which it belongs: καλὸν ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, good were it for him not to have been born, Mt. xxvi. 24; Mk. xiv. 21. δ. the whole emphasis is placed on the negative itself : εἰ σὺ οὐκ εἶ ὁ Χριστός, Jn. i. 25. ὍὌ. the οὐ coalesces, as it were, with the word to which it belongs into a single idea: εἰ δὲ οὐκ ἐγκρατεύονται, if they are incontinent, 1 Co. vii. 9; εἴ τις τῶν ἰδίων οὐ προνοεῖ [or -εῖται T Tr txt. WH mrg.], neglects, 1 Tim. v. 8; add, Lk. xiv. 26; 1 Co. xvi. 22; Rev. xx. 15, ete. 12. εἰ οὖν, if then: Mt. vi. 23; vii. 11; Lk. xi. 13, 36; Jn. xiii. 14; xviii. 8; Acts xi. 17; Col. iii. 1; Philem. 17. [On εἰ μὲν οὖν see μέν 11]. 4.) 13. εἴπερ [50 ΤΎΝΗ (exe. in 2 Co. ν. 3 mrg.), but L Tr εἴ περ; cf. W. 45; Lipsius, Gram. Unters. p. 123], (εἰ and πέρ, and this apparently from περί), prop. if on the whole; if only, provided that, is used “of a thing which is assumed to be, but whether rightly or wrongly is left in doubt ” (Herm. ad Vig. p. 831, [so W. 448 (417); but ef. Bdumlein, Griech. Partikeln, p. 202 (cf. 64 bot.) ; K/otz ad Devar. ii. 2 p. 528, and esp. s. v. εἴγε (in γέ, 3 6.) and the reff. to Mey., Lghtft., Ellic., there given]): Ro. viii. 9,17; 1 Co. vill. 5; xv. 15; 1 Pet. ii. 3 (where L T Tr WH εἰν; by a species of rhetorical politeness it is used of that about which there is no doubt: 2 Th. i. 6; Ro. iii. 30 L T Tr WH; 2 Co. v. 3 L Tr WH mre. 14. εἴ πως [L Tr WH] or εἴπως [ἃ ΤΊ, if in any way, if by any means, if possibly: with the optat. pres. (see I. 7 above), Acts xxvii. 12; interrogatively, with the indic. fut. Ro. i. 10; | with the subjune. aor., so that before εἰ the word σκοπῶν or πειρώμενος must be mentally supplied (see II. 1 ἃ. above): Ro. xi. 14; Phil. iii. 11. 15. εἴτε. .. εἴτε, a. whether... or [as disjunc. conjunce., sive ... sive; ef. W. 440 (409 sq.) ; B. 221 (191) ], without a verb following: Ro. xii. 6-8; 1 Co. iii. 22; viii. 5; 2 Co. v. 9sq.; Phil. i. 18, 20, 27; 2 Th. ii. 15; Col. i. 16, 20; 1 Pet. ii . etre, 1 Co. xv. 11; foll. by the indic. pres., 1 Co. xii. 26; xiii. 8; 2 Co. i. 6; foll. by the subjune. pres. 1 Th. v. 10, where the use of the subjune. was occasioned by the subjunc. ζήσωμεν in the leading clause; cf. W. 294 (276); Β.221 (191). b. [as indirect interrogatives, utrum...an; cf. B. 250(215)] (see exx. fr. Grk. auth. in Matthiae p. 1476 sq.) : after οὐκ vida, 2 Co. xii. 2sq. 116. εἴ τις, εἴ τε: exx. of this combination have already been given among the preceding; here may be added εἴ τις ἕτερος, εἴ τι ἕτερον, and if (there be) any other person or thing, —a phrase used as a conclusion after the mention or enumeration of several particulars belonging to the same class (in the classics εἴ τις ἄλλος, εἰ Kal τις ἄλλος, καὶ εἴ TL ἄλλο, etc., in Hdt., Xen., Plat., al.): Ro. xiii. 9; 1 Tim. i. 10; εἴ τις with subjune. pres. Rey. xi. 5 Ree.; with the subjune. aor., ibid. T Tr WH txt. [elye, see ye, 8 c.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τις tis 534x
enclitic, indefinite pronoun, a certain one, someone, Mt. 12:47; pl. some, certain, several, Lk. 8:2; Acts 9:19; 2 Pet. 3:16; one, a person, Mt. 12:29; Lk. 14:8; Jn. 6:50; combined with the name of an individual, one, Mk. 15:21; as it were in a manner, a kind of, Heb. 10:27; Jas. 1:18; any whatever, Mt. 8:28; Lk. 11:36; Rom. 8:39; τις, somebody of consequence, Acts 5:36; τι, something of consequence, Gal. 2:6; 6:3; τι, anything at all, anything worth account, 1 Cor. 3:7; 10:19; τι at all, Phil. 3:15; Phlm. 18
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τις, neut., τι, gen., τινός, enclitic indefinite pron., related to interrog. τίς as πού, πως, ποτέ to ποῦ, πῶς, πότε.
As subst., one, a certain one: Lk 9:49, Jo 11:1, Ac 5:25, al.; pl., τίνες, certain, some: Lk 13:1, Ac 15:1, Ro 3:8, al.
someone, anyone, something, anything: Mt 12:29, Mk 9:30, Lk 8:46, Jo 2:25, Ac 17:25, Ro 5:7, al.; = indef., one (French on), Mk 8:4, Jo 2:25, Ro 8:24, al.; pl., τινες, some, Mk 14:4, al.
As adj., a certain: Mt 18:12, Lk 1:5 8:27, Ac 3:2, al.; with proper names, Mk 15:21, Lk 23:26, al.; c. gen. partit., Lk 7:19, al.
some: Mk 16:[18], Jo 5:14, Ac 17:21 24:24, He 11:40, al.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τις (indef. pron.), ‘* someone, something’’: P Vat ΑἸ (B.c. 168) (= UPZi. p. 303) πᾶς τις πειρᾶται. . ., P Lond 421° (B.C. 168) (= Selections, p. 10) εἰς πᾶν τι ἐληλυθυῖα διὰ, τὴν τοῦ σίτου τιμήν, ‘having come to the last extremity because of the high price of corn,’’ P Oxy IV. 7421° (B.c. 2) ἐάν τι δύνῃ... δὸς ἐργασίαν, “if you can, give your attention to it’’ (Edd.), 2d. I. 120% (iv/a.D.) τινα ὁρῶντα αἱαυτὸν (/. ἑαυτὸν) ἐν δυστυχίᾳ, ““α man finding himself in adversity,’ 13 ἀποστῖλόν pot τινα ἢ Γοῦνθον ἢ ᾿Αμμώνιον, “send someone to me, either Gunthus or Ammonius” (Edd.). P Oxy VI. 937°" (ili/A.D.) γ]ράψον ἐκεῖ TO kat’ εἶδος ὅτι τι kal τι εἴληφας is translated by the editors ‘* write the list there, that you have received so and so.” They 3) ες remark that it is simpler to take τι καί τι as analogous to τὸ καὶ τό than ‘‘to take τί kal τί as an indirect interrogative, ὅτι being redundant.” For tus used to denote an unspecified name, cf. P Oxy VII. 1034!" (ii/A.D.) κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρ[α] μου τινὰ καὶ τὸν {roy} σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινὰ καί τινα, τὸν μέν τινα ἧς TpoUTHAAAEA .. . οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς, “1 leave as my heirs my daughter x and her foster-brother y and z, z of the house and court which I previously mortgaged ” (Ed.), and zd. III. 509! (late ii/A.p.) τίς τινι χαίρει[ν, “A to B, greeting” (Edd.). A good parallel to Ac 5%° is afforded by Ῥ Leid Wi. (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 103) διαπεράσεις TO πέρα, ὅτι ἐγώ ipl (/. εἰμί) τις : cf. also Herodas VI. 54 ἦν μέν kor, ἦν τις, ἀλλὰ νῦν γεγήρακε, ““ he once cut a figure, only now he has grown old” (see Headlam’s note). For τίς mote see P Oxy IV. 7457 (c. A-D. I) μοι ἐχρήσατο . οὐχ ὡς λύσαζνντι GAN ὥς τινί ποτε ἀποστερητῆϊ μὴ ἀποϑεδωκότι, “he treated me not like a man who had paid but like a defrauder and a debtor” (Edd.), and 74. XIV. 168018 * (jii/iv A.D.) ὑπονοοῦμαι ὅτι πάντως πάλιν τί ποτε ἔχει πρὸς σέ. [εἴ τί ποτε αὐτῷ χρεωστεῖς . . ., “1 suspect that he must have some further claim against you. If you owe him anything . . .” MGr has retained τίποτε (in a variety of forms, Thumb Havas. p. 358), while discarding most forms of τις (24. p. 95 f.). With μήτιγε βιωτικά, “not to speak of mere affairs of daily life,” in 1 Cor 6% cf. P Lond 425 (B.c. 168) (= I. p. 30, UPZ i. p. 300, Selections, p. 10) μὴ ὅτι ye τοσούτου χρόνον ἐπιγεγονότος, “not to speak of so much time having gone by”: see Proleg. p. 240. J. H. Moulton (Pro/eg. p. 59) thinks that the very difficult εἴ τις σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί of Phil 21, involving as it does both number and gender, may be illustrated from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τις (tis) — one. τις, τι, Indef. pronoun any one, any thing, enclitic through all cases (for exceptions see below):—but τί; τί; Interrog. pronoun who? what?, oxytone in the monosyllable cases, paroxytone in the others:—Dialectal forms: [Refs 5th c.AD+] σις (si se) [Refs 4th c.AD+] σις (with ?? for σ) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Thess. κις [Refs], neuter κι in διεκί, ποκκί (which see); neuter plural Doric dialect σά, Boeotian dialect τά, Aeolic dialect dative τίω, τίοισι (see. infr. B). (I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] q[uglide]i-, cf. Latin quis, quid, etc.; for σά, τά, see at {ἄσσα}, σά μά; with τέο (see. infr. B) cf. OSlav. genitive česo) __A Indef. pronoun τις, τι, genitive Ionic dialect τεο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; more frequently τευ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Trag. and Attic dialect του [Refs 5th c.BC+]; του is rare after [NT+4th c.BC+], but found in [Refs 3rd c.BC+], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; dative Ionic dialect τεῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Trag. and Attic dialect τῳ (also in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+] in the form οὔ τινι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; accusative τινα [Refs 8th c.BC+], neuter τι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: plural τινες [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τινεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; nominative and accusative neuter τινα (ὅτινα [Refs 8th c.BC+], never in Trag., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄσσα (which see) [Refs 8th c.BC+], never in Trag. or [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Attic dialect ἄττα first in [LXX+5th c.BC+], revived by the Atticists, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; genitive Ionic dialect τεων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινων not in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; dative τισι, τισιν, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; N.-W. Doric dialect τινοις [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Ionic dialect τεοισι [Refs 5th c.BC+] (for τεοις and τεον see at {τεός}); accusative τινας [Refs 8th c.BC+]; neuter τινα (see. above):—any one, any thing, some one, some thing; and as adjective any, some, and serving as the Indef. Article a, an; θεός νύ τίς ἐστι κοτήεις [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II special usages: __A.II.1 some one (of many), i.e. many a one, ὧδε δέ τις εἴπεσκεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: sometimes with meiosis, implying all or men,[Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.2 any one concerned, every one, εὖ μέν τις δόρυ θηξάσθω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλλά τις αὐτὸς ἴτω let every man come himself,[Refs]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, even with the imperative, τοῦτό τις.. ἴστω S [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ξυμμάχους αὐτόν τινα κολάζειν that every man should himself chastise his own allies, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄμεινόν τινος better than any others, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—this is more fully expressed by adding other pronominal words, τις ἕκαστος [Refs 8th c.BC+]. In these senses, τις is frequently combined with plural words, οἱ κακοὶ.. οὐκ ἴσασι, πρίν τις ἐκβάλῃ, for πρὶν ἐκβάλωσι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἷς ἂν ἐπίω, ἧσσόν τις πρόσεισι, for ἧσσον προσίασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially after εἴ or ἤν τις, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.3 in reference to a definite person, whom one wishes to avoid naming, οὐκ ἔφασαν ἰέναι, ἐὰν μή τις χρήματα διδῷ (i.e. Cyrus) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also euphemistic for something bad, ἤν τι ποιῶμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence for the 1st pers. or 2nd pers. pronoun, ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποῖ τις τρέψετα; for ποῖ τρέψομα; [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.4 indefinitely, where we say they, French on, sometimes with an ironical force, φοβεῖταί τις [Refs 4th c.BC+]; as vocative, τὸν Πλοῦτον ἔξω τις κάλει call P. out, somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.5 τις, τι may be opposed, expressly or by implication, to οὐδείς, οὐδέν, and mean somebody, something, by meiosis for some great one, some great thing, ηὔχεις τις εἶναι you boasted that you were somebody, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κἠγών τις φαίνομαι ἦμεν after all I too am somebody, [NT+3rd c.BC+]; also in neuter, οἴονταί τι εἶναι ὄντες οὐδενὸς ἄξιοι [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.5.b τις is sometimes opposed to to another word, ἀελλοπόδων μέν τιν᾽ εὐφραίνοισιν ἵππων τιμαί.., τέρπεται δὲ καί τις.. [LXX+5th c.BC+]; ἔστιν οὖν οὐ πᾶν τὸ ταχύ, ἀλλά τι (sic codices BT) αὐτοῦ ἀγαστόν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μεῖζον τοῦθ᾽ ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἑτέρου λέγεται· τινὸς γὰρ λέγεται μεῖζον greater than something, [Refs]; πότερον τῷ τυχόντι ἢ τισί; [Refs] __A.II.6 with (Proper name)s τις commonly signifies one named so-and-so, ἦν δέ τις ἐν Τρώεσσι Δάρης [Refs 8th c.BC+]; with a sense of contempt, Θερσίτης τις ἦν there was one Thersites, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.6.b one of the same sort, converting the (Proper name) into an appellative, ἤ τις Ἀπόλλων ἢ Πάν an Apollo or a Pan, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; [πόλιες] ταὶ μέλονται πρός τινος ἢ Διὸς ἢ γλαυκᾶς Ἀθάνας Lyric poetry in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰσθμόν τιν᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.7 with adjectives τις combines to express the idea of a substantive used as predicate, ὥς τις θαρσαλέος καὶ ἀναιδής ἐσσι προΐκτης a bold and impudent beggar, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγώ τις, ὡς ἔοικε, δυσμαθής a dullard, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόβου πλέα τις εἶ a coward, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὡς ταχεῖά τις.. χάρις διαρρεῖ in what swift fashion (={ταχέως πως}), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος thinking it a terrible thing, [Refs] __A.II.8 with numerals and adjectives expressing number, size, or the like, εἷς δέ τις ἀρχὸς ἀνὴρ.. ἔστω some one man, [NT+8th c.BC+]; sometimes the τις softens the definiteness of the numeral, ἑπτά τινες some seven, seven or so, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so without an actual numeral, ἡμέρας τινάς some days, i.e. several, [Refs]; στρατῷ τινι of a certain amount, considerable, [Refs]; ἐνιαυτόν τινα a year or so, [Refs]; so οὐ πολλοί τινες, τινὲς οὐ πολλοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀλίγοι τινές or τινὲς ὀλίγοι [Refs]; οὔ τινα πολλὸν χρόνον no very long time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also ὅσσος τις χρυσός what a store of gold, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II.9 with Pronominal words, ἀλλά τί μοι τόδε θυμὸς.. μερμηρίζει something, namely this, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἷός τις what sort of a man, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II.10 with the Article, __A.II.10.a when a noun with the Article is in apposition with τις, as ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ κύριος παρῇ τις when the person in authority, whoever he be, is here, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς αὐτοέντας.. τιμωρεῖν τινας (variant τινα) [Refs] __A.II.10.b in Philosophic writers, τις is added to the Article to show that the Article is used to denote a particular individual who is not specified in the general formula, although he would be in the particular case, ὁ τὶς ἄνθρωπος the individual man (whoever he may be), this or that man, opposed to ἄνθρωπος (man in general), ὁ τὶς ἵππος, ἡ τὶς γραμματική, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ τὶ μέγεθος, opposed to ὅλως τὸ μέγεθος, [Refs 5th c.BC+], the Article is used as in [Refs 8th c.BC+] cc. (which see) ὁ, ἡ, τό [Refs 5th c.BC+], δεῦρο ὅ τις θεός, ὄφθητί μοι in a general formula of invocation, [Refs] __A.II.10.c frequently in opposed clauses, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δὲ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: also combined with other alternative words, ὁ μέν τις.., ὁ δέ τις.., ἕτερος δέ τις.. [Refs]; ὁ μὲν.., ἕτερος δέ τις.., ὁ δὲ.., etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in neuter, τὸ μέν τι.., τὸ δέ τι.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; in adverbial sense, τὸ μὲν.., τὸ δέ τι.. partly.., partly.. , [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; and τι remains unaltered even when the Article is plural, τὰ μέν τι μαχόμενοι, τὰ δὲ καὶ ἀναπαυόμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τὸ δέ τι.. but in some measure.., without τὸ μέν preceding, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.10.d later τις is used as in b above but without the Article, γράψον.. ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας that you have received such and such things, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τίς τινι χαίρειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __A.II the neuter τι is used, __A.II.a collectively, ἦν τι καὶ ἐν ταῖς Συρακούσαις there was a party.. , [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so perhaps τῶν ἄλλων οὔ πέρ τι πεφυγμένον ἐστ᾽ Ἀφροδίτην, οὔτε θεῶν, οὔτ᾽ ἀνθρώπων no class, [Refs] (but masculine τις in [Refs] __A.II.b euphemistic for something bad, see above [Refs] __A.II.c joined with Verbs, somewhat, in any degree, at all, ἦ ῥά τί μοι κεχολώσεαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ πάνυ τι, πολύ τι, σχεδόν τι, see at {πάνυ} [Refs]; also in conjunction with οὐδέν, μηδέν, οὐδέν τι πάντως [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδέν, μηδέν τι μᾶλλον, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —also καί τι καὶ.. ὑποψίᾳ in part also from suspicion, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.12 τίς τε frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+] __A.II.13 ἤ τις ἢ οὐδείς few or none, next to none, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ τι ἢ οὐδέν little or nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.II.14 τις is pleonastic in such phrases as οὐδέν τι or μηδέν τι, see above [Refs] __A.II.14.b repeated in successive clauses, ὅσα λέγει τις ἢ πράσσειτις ἢψέγειν ἔχει [Refs 5th c.BC+] (whereas τις is sometimes omitted in the first clause, οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτε του μορφὴν βροτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+], the repetition is pleonastic, as also in [Refs 4th c.BC+] __A.II.15 τις is sometimes omitted, οὐδέ κεν ἔνθα τεόν γε μένος καὶ χεῖρας ὄνοιτο (i.e. τις) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς δ᾽ ἐν ὀνείρῳ οὐ δύναται (i.e. τις) φεύγοντα διώκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: τις must often be supplied from what goes before,[Refs] __A.II.15.b sometimes also τις is omitted before a genitive case which must depend upon it, as ἢ [τις] τᾶς ἀσώτου Σισυφιδᾶν γενεᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢν γαμῇ ποτ᾽ αὐτὸς ἢ [τις] τῶν ξυγγενῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.III Accentuation and position of τις: __A.III.1 accentuation: τις is normally enclitic, but in certain uses is orthotone, i.e. theoretically oxytone (τίς, τινά, τινές, τινῶν, etc.,[Refs 4th c.AD+] or τις, τινὰ, τινὲς, τινῶν, etc.). According to [Refs] __A.III.1.a at the beginning of a sentence, τίς ἔνδον..; is any one within? [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τί φημ; ={λέγω τι}; am I saying anything? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; <τίς ἦλθ;> ἦλθέ τις has anybody come? [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὶς κάθηται, τὶς περιπατεῖ, so and so is sitting (walking), [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὶς αἰπόλος καλούμενος Κομάτας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τι οὖν (τὶς ἂν εἴποι) ταῦτα λέγει; [Refs 4th c.BC+] __A.III.1.b when τις is opposed to to another τις or to some other word, τισὶ μὲν συμφέρει, τισὶ δ᾽ οὐ συμφέρει [Refs 5th c.BC+] for a certain person, [Refs 5th c.BC+]. Codices are not consistent; in signification[Refs] they make it enclitic; in signification [Refs]; sometimes enclitic and orthotone in the same sentence, πάντα δὲ τὰ γιγνόμενα ὑπό τέ τινος γίγνεται καὶ ἔκ τινος καὶ τί [Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.III.2 position: __A.III.2.a τις is rarely first word in the sentence, and rarely follows a pause (see. above [Refs]; it may stand second word, ἔσκε τις ἐνθάδε μάντις ἀνήρ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; but in general its position is not far before or after the word to which it belongs in sense, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή τινα μάντιν ἐρείομεν [Refs] __A.III.2.b in Ionic dialect Prose it sometimes stands between its genitive and the Article of that genitive, τῶν τις Περσέων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so also in late Prose, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __A.III.2.c it stands between the Article and substantive in signification[Refs 5th c.BC+] __A.III.2.d τίς τι is the correct order, not τί τις, “IG” 12.110.46, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.14 (codices dett.), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.22, etc. __A.III.2.e whereas in _Attic dialect_ the order ἐάν τις is compulsory, in _Doric dialect_ the usual order is αἴ τίς κα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: later Doric dialect εἴ τί κα [Refs]; καἴ τι ἂν (={καὶ εἴ τι ἂν}) [Refs 1st c.BC+], see below [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—this Doric dialect order influenced the Koine, as in the rare εἴ τις ἂν [Refs 1st c.AD+]
