it's+nowhere+to+be+had

πού enclitic adv. (Hom.+; pap, LXX; TestSol 1, 46; Just.; Tat. 37, 1; Mel., P. 72, 530.)

① marker of an undetermined position or place, somewhere w. quotations (Diod S 1, 12, 10 ‘the poet’ [=Homer] says ποὺ κατὰ τὴν ποίησιν=somewhere in his poem. Of Cercidas [III B.C.] [ed. Diehl³ Fgm. 11a, 4] ὀρθῶς λέγει που Κερκίδας [quot. follows]. Lucian, Ver. Hist. 2, 42 φησὶ γάρ που κἀκεῖνος [i.e. Antimachus IV B.C.], then a quot.; Appian, Bell. Civ. 1, 97 §452 [with a quot.]; Plut., Mor. 553b [Homeric quot.]; Philo, Ebr. 61 εἶπε γάρ πού τις, and Gen 20:12 follows; Just. A I, 3, 3 ἔφη γάρ που καί τις) Hb 2:6; 4:4; 1 Cl 15:2; 21:2; 26:2; 28:2; 42:5.—After a neg.= nowhere Dg 5:2. W. weakening of the local mng. εἰ δέ που παρηκολουθώς τις τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις ἔλθοι when perchance someone came who had been associated with the ‘elders’ Papias (2:4).

② marker of numerical approximation, about, approximately (Paus. 8, 11, 14 περὶ εἴκοσί που σταδίους; Aelian, VH 13, 4; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 104) Ro 4:19.—On δή π., μή π. s. δήπου, μήπου.—μή που (some edd. μήπου; v.l. μήπως. Hom. et al.; BGU 446, 15; Jos., Bell. 7, 397, Ant. 18, 183) conj. lest φοβεῖσθαι μ. π. Ac 27:29.—DELG s.v. πο-. M-M.

Τιμόθεος, ου, ὁ (freq. found Aristoph., X.+; ins, pap, LXX; Jos., Ant. 12, 329–44) voc. Τιμόθεε 1 Ti 1:18; 6:20. Timothy, a friend, traveling companion and co-worker of Paul. Ac 16:1ff tells us that he lived in Lycaonia, prob. in Lystra, and was born of a polytheistic father and a monotheistic mother (named Eunice acc. to 2 Ti 1:5). Paul had him circumcised (Ac 16:3) before taking him on one of his important journeys (2 Cor 1:19; Ac 17:14f; 18:5), and used him permanently as an associate (συνεργός Ro 16:21). He is named as the ‘co-writer’ of six letters (2 Cor 1:1; Phil 1:1; Col 1:1; 1 Th 1:1; 2 Th 1:1; Phlm 1). He was active in Thessalonica (1 Th 3:2, 6; s. the subscr. to 2 Th), Corinth (1 Cor 4:17; 16:10), and then again in Macedonia (Ac 19:22) as Paul’s envoy. He also accompanied him on his last journey to Jerusalem (Ac 20:4). Later he shared Paul’s imprisonment (cp. Phil 2:19 and also the introductions of the imprisonment epistles except Eph). In 1 and 2 Ti he is mentioned in the salutations (1 Ti 1:2; 2 Ti 1:2) and also 1 Ti 1:18; 6:20 (s. above, beg.); 2 Ti subscr. refers to him as overseer. Finally he appears once more in the NT, Hb 13:23. He is mentioned nowhere else in our lit.—AJülicher, RE XIX 1907, 781–88; FPölzl, Die Mitarbeiter des Weltap. Pls 1911, 136ff; ERedlich, St. Paul and His Companions 1913; WHadorn (s.v. ὑπηρέτης); JAlexander, The Character of Tim.: ET 25, 1914, 277–85 (against him GFindlay, ibid. 426); Pauly-W. VI A ’37, 1342–54; Kl. Pauly V 851f; BHHW III, 1988–91; WOllrog, Paulus u. s. Mitarbeiter ’79; PTrümert, Die Paulustrad. d. Past. ’78. On the composition and language of the Pastorals s. PHarrison, The Problem of the Pastoral Epistles 1921; BEaston, The Pastoral Epistles ’47; comprehensive comm. by CSpicq ’47; MDibelius and HConzelmann, The Pastoral Epistles (Eng. tr.) ’72; JWhite, New Testament Epistolary Lit. in the Framework of Ancient Epistolography, ANRW II/25/2 ’84, 1730–56. S. also WKümmel, Einleitung²¹ ’83 —DELG s.v. τιμή. LGPN I. M-M. TW.