δή
dḗ · G1211 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Person
- Barnabasfirst named in Acts 4:3630 verses
Meanings
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then, indeed or frequently not translated but possibly reflected in the word order
Marker of relatively weak emphasis
ExamplesMatthew 13:23 “But the one sown with seed on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty times as much.”
Luke 2:15 When the angels had departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let’s go straight to Bethlehem, then, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- נָא nâʼ · H4994 · please, now
- Hebrew נָא and Greek δή both function as pragmatic discourse particles adding urgency, emphasis, or politeness. נָא typically marks entreaty (“I pray, I beseech”), while δή marks logical emphasis or explicitness (“now then”). The two are regularly paired as translation equivalents in petition and emphasis contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Then, indeed or frequently not translated but possibly reflected in the word order91.6
- Used as an emphatic discourse particle, as of the one who indeed hears and understands the word in Matthew 13:23, the shepherds' urging to go and see indeed in Luke 2:15, the Holy Spirit's charge to set Barnabas and Saul apart in Acts 13:2, Paul's proposal to go and visit the brothers again in Acts 15:36, and the call to glorify God in one's body, since it has indeed been bought at a price, in 1 Corinthians 6:20.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root δή
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (shortened from ἤδη (others besides)), a particle which, the epic phrases δή τότε, δή γάρ…
1. added to relative pronouns: ὅς δή, who is such a one as, who preeminently, who then, Mt 13:23.
2. joined to imperatives and hortatory subjunctives it signifies that the thing enjoined must be done forthwith, at once (cf. Winers Grammar, § 43, 3 a.), so that it may be evident that it is being done (cf. Passow, i., p. 612{b}), where the Latin saysagedum,jam, German doch,nur (English, now, only, but): Lk 2:15; Acts ( L WH marginal reading brackets); Acts 13:2; Acts 15:36; 1 Cor 6:20 (Sir. 44:1).
3. surely, certainly: 2 Cor 12:1 R G.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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