the Third Week of Advent
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #5504 - χθές
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- yesterday
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
χθές,
Adv. (lengthd. ἐχθές (q.v.); where the word occurs in NT, John 4:52, Acts 7:28, Hebrews 13:8, codd. vary betw. ἐχθές and χθές; χθές is not found in Ptolemaic papyri, but in PLond. 2.161.8 (iii A. D.)): —
yesterday, h.Merc. 273, Th. 3.113, Pl. R. 327a, Smp. 174a, etc.: freq. placed between Art. and Subst., ἡ χ. ὁμολογία, οἱ χ. λόγοι, Pl. Sph. 216a, Ti. 26e; τῇ χ. ἡμέρᾳ Plu. 2.773e; χ. μὲν.., τὰ νῦν δὲ.. Pl. Ti. 17a: freq. πρώην τε καὶ χ., χ. καὶ πρώην, v. πρώην 11; χ. καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν v.l. in X. Cyr. 6.3.11, cf. LXX Genesis 31:2. (Cf. Skt. hyás 'yesterday', Lat. heri, hesternus, OHG. gestaron 'yesterday', etc.)
ἐχθές and (Rec., so Griesbach in Acts and Heb.) χθές (on which forms cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 323f; (especially Rutherford. New Phryn., p. 370f); Bleek, Br. an d. Hebrew ii. 2, p. 1000; (Tdf. Proleg., p. 81; Winers Grammar, pp. 24, 45; Buttmann, 72 (63))), adverb, yesterday: John 4:52; Acts 7:28; of time just past, Hebrews 13:8. (From Sophocles down.)
STRONGS NT 5504: χθές χθές (Rec.; also Griesbach in Acts and Heb.), equivalent to ἐχθές (which see), yesterday; the Sept. for תְּמול. (Homer (h. Merc.), others) χιλαρχος, χιλαρχου, ὁ (χίλιοι and ἄρχων; (on the form of the word cf. references under the word ἑκατοντάρχης, and Liddell and Scott, under the word χιλαρχης)), the commander of a thousand soldiers, a chiliarch; the commander of a Roman cohort (a military tribune): John 18:12; Acts 21:31-33, 37; Acts 22:24, 26-29; Acts 23:10, 15, 17-19, 22; Acts 24:7 Rec.,
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
ἐχθές
(Rec. χθές ), adv.,
[in LXX for H8543, etc.;]
yesterday: John 4:52, Acts 7:28, Hebrews 13:8 (on the form, v. Rutherford, NPhr., 370 f.).†
χθές , see ἐχθές
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For the late form ὠδίν (cf. Blass-Debrunner § 46. 4) = ";birth-pangs,"; as in 1Th. 5:3, cf. the sepulchral inscr. Preisigke 43124.4f. (Ptol.) θνήσκω δ᾽ ἄλγεσ [ι πικροτάτοις ὠδῖνας προ ̣φυγοῦσα συναίμου ̣[ς. . ., also Kaibel 145.4 (ii/A.D.)—
τοῦ με χάριν προφυγόντα πικρὰν ὠδῖνα τεκούσης
ἠγάγετε ἱμερτοῦ πρὸς φάος ἠελίου.
On the force of λύσας τὰς ὠδῖνας τοῦ θανάτου in Act. 2:24, see Field Notes, p. 112.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
