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τινων (tinon)

τινων is an Ancient Greek form of τις, meaning “someone, anyone, a certain; some”. It is the genitive plural masculine pronoun.

Found 1,412 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.233: ἤλασεν, Ἠελίῳ τίνων χάριν, ὅς ῥά μιν ἵπποις

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2.1: φαίνεται γὰρ ἡ νῦν Ἑλλὰς καλουμένη οὐ πάλαι βεβαίως οἰκουμένη, ἀλλὰ μεταναστάσεις τε οὖσαι τὰ πρότερα καὶ ῥᾳδίως ἕκαστοι τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀπολείποντες βιαζόμενοι ὑπό τινων αἰεὶ πλειόνων.

New Testament, 1 Timothy 5.24: Τινῶν ἀνθρώπων αἱ ἁμαρτίαι πρόδηλοί εἰσιν, προάγουσαι εἰς κρίσιν, τισὶν δὲ καὶ ἐπακολουθοῦσιν·

All forms of τις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.