ἐγγύς
engýs · G1451 · Greek · 30 occurrences
Meanings
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near, nearby
A position relatively close to another position
ExamplesLuke 19:11 Now while they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.
John 3:23 Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there; and people were coming and being baptized—
John 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat; and they were frightened.
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near
A point of time subsequent to another point of time, but relatively close
ExamplesMatthew 24:32 “Now learn the parable from the fig tree: as soon as its branch has become tender and sprouts its leaves, you know that summer is near;
Matthew 24:33 so you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.
Matthew 26:18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am keeping the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γινώσκωto know 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
14 occurrences in 8 groups
- θέροςsummer 3
- καιρόςtime, occasion, period of time 3
- πάσχαthe Passover 3
- ἑορτήfestival 1
- κύριοςLord 1
- μνημεῖονgrave 1
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
- קָרוֹב qârôwb · H7138 · near, close
- Greek ἐγγύς and Hebrew קָרוֹב share the core spatial and temporal sense of 'near/close' and serve as direct translation equivalents across the LXX corpus, with קָרוֹב's extended kinship senses ('near of kin') represented in Greek through contextual phrases rather than inherent in ἐγγύς itself.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Near, nearby83.26
- In Matthew 24:32-33, Jesus teaches that when the fig tree's branch becomes tender, summer is near, and likewise His own return is near, right at the door, using the adjective for temporal or spatial proximity, as also in Matthew 26:18's announcement that His time is near and the parallel fig-tree teaching in Mark 13:28-29.
- Near67.61
- This entry carries no independent occurrence of its own beyond the spatial-nearness sense already attested; this lexeme's own occurrences (e.g., Philippians 4:5's “The Lord is near”) illustrate spatial or eschatological nearness rather than the specifically temporal “near [in time]” sense of this domain. The domain is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster row, whose temporal-nearness sense is independently attested by the paired form ἐγγύτερον (engýteron, G1452), not by this entry.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon [, neuter plural superlative (from ἐγγύς) as adverb, nearest, next: WH (rejected)…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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