Bible Lexicons

(indef. pron.), ";someone,"; ";something"; : P Vat A.17 (B.C. 168) (= UPZ i. p. 303) πᾶς τις πειρᾶται. . ., P Lond 42.16 (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. 742.10 (B.C. 2) ἐάν τι δύνῃ. . . δὸς ἐργασία [ν, ";if you can, give your attention to it"; (Edd.), ib. I. 120.4 (iv/A.D.) τινα ὁρῶντα αἱαυτὸν (l. ἑαυτὸν) ἐν δυστυχίᾳ, ";a man finding himself in adversity,"; .12 ἀποστῖλόν μοί τινα ἢ Γοῦν ̣θον ἢ Ἀμμώνιον, ";send someone to me, either Gunthus or Ammonius"; (Edd.). P Oxy VI. 937.22 (iii/A.D.) γ ]ράψον ἐκεῖ τὸ κατ᾽ εἶδος ὅτι τι καί τι εἴληφας is translated by the editors ";write the list there, that you have received so and so."; They remark that it is simpler to take τι καί τι as analogous to τὸ καὶ τό than ";to take τί καὶ τί as an indirect interrogative, ὅτι being redundant.";

For τις used to denote an unspecified name, cf. P Oxy VII. 1034.1ff. (ii/A.D.) κληρονόμους καταλείπω τὴν θυγατέρ [α ] μου τινὰ καὶ τὸν íτον ý σύντροφον αὐτῆς τινὰ καί τινα, τὸν μέν τινα ἧς προϋπήλλαξα. . . οἰκίας καὶ αὐλῆς, ";I 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 ib. III. 509.1 (late ii/A.D.) τίς τινι χαίρει [ν, ";A to B, greeting"; (Edd.). A good parallel to Acts 5:36 is afforded by P Leid Wvii. 25 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 103) διαπεράσεις τὸ πέρα, ὅτι ἐγώ ἰμί (l. εἰμί) τις : cf. also Herodas VI. 54 ἦν μέν κοτ᾽, ἦν τις, ἀλλὰ νῦν γεγήρακε, ";he once cut a figure, only now he has grown old"; (see Headlam’s note).

For τίς ποτε see P Oxy IV. 745.7 (c. A.D. 1) μοι ἐχρήσατο. . οὐχ ὡς λύσα <ν >τι ἀλλ᾽ ὥς τινί ποτε ἀποστερητῆι μὴ ἀποδεδωκότι, ";he treated me not like a man who had paid but like a defrauder and a debtor"; (Edd.), and ib. XIV. 1680.13 ff. (iii/iv A.D.) ὑπονοοῦμαι ὅτι πάντως πάλιν τί ποτε ἔχει πρὸς σέ. [εἴ τ ]ι ̣ ποτε αὐτῷ χρεωστεῖς. . ., ";I 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 Handb. p. 358), while discarding most forms of τις (ib. p. 95 f.).

With μήτιγε βιωτικά, ";not to speak of mere affairs of daily life,"; in 1 Corinthians 6:3 cf. P Lond 42.23 (B.C. 168) (= I. p. 30, UPZ i. p. 300, Selections, p. 10) μὴ ὅτι γε τοσούτου χρόνου ἐπιγεγονότος, ";not to speak of so much time having gone by"; : see Proleg. p. 240.

J. H. Moulton (Proleg. p. 59) thinks that the very difficult εἴ τις σπλάγχνα καὶ οἰκτιρμοί of Philippians 2:1, involving as it does both number and gender, may be illustrated from P Par 15.15 (B.C. 120) ἐπί τι μίαν τῶν. . οἰκιῶν, and BGU I. 326ii. 9 (A.D. 194) εἰ δέ τι πε [ρ ]ισσὰ γράμματα. . . [καταλίπω. He prefers, however, the suggestion of Blass, and independently of Kennedy (EGT ad l.), to read εἴ τι throughout in the sense of si quid valet : see also Proleg. p. 244 for Rouse’s reference for indeclinable τι to MGr κάτι, as κάτι ἡσυχία, ";a little rest.";