Word

εἶτα

eîta · G1534 · Greek · 15 occurrences

Meanings

then, afterwards, later

A point of time following another point

Examples
Mark 4:17 and yet they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Mark 4:28 “The soil produces crops by itself; first the stalk, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
Mark 8:25 Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.
besides this, furthermore

A marker of an addition which has just been specified in the context

Examples
Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Then, afterwards, later67.44: Used repeatedly to mark sequence in narrative, as in Mark 4:17 and 4:28 describing what happens next in the parable of the sower and the growing seed, and in John 13:5, where Jesus 'then' poured water into a basin.
Besides this, furthermore89.100: Used in Luke 8:12 to introduce a further stage in an explanation, extending a preceding point rather than simply marking narrative time.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

εἶταeîta · G1534ἔπειτα épeita · G1899 · then, afterwards, later · 16×μετέπειτα metépeita · G3347 · then, afterwards, later · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb of time, then; next; after that: Mk 8:25; Lk 8:12; Jn 13:5; Jn 19:27; Jn 20:27;…

adverb of time, then; next; after that: Mk 8:25; Lk 8:12; Jn 13:5; Jn 19:27; Jn 20:27; Jas 1:15; with the addition of a genitive absolutely to define it more precisely, Mk 4:17; as in classic Greek, it stands in enumerations, to mark a sequence depending either on temporal succession, as Mk 4:28 (see εἶτεν); 1 Cor 15:5-7 (εἶτα (T ἔπειτα, so in marginal reading Tr WH)... ἔπειτα... ἔπειτα... εἶτα (T ἔπειτα, so in marginal reading L Tr WH)); 1 Cor 15:24 (ἔπειτα... εἶτα); 1 Tim 2:13; or on the nature of the things enumerated, 1 Cor 12:28 (πρῶτον... δεύτερον... τρίτον... ἔπειτα... εἶτα for which L T Tr WH ἔπειτα); (1 Tim 3:10); in arguments it serves to add a new reason, furthermore (German sodann): Heb 12:9.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After15 occurrences Addition1 occurrence

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.

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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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