ἐκεῖνος
ekeînos · G1565 · Greek · 244 occurrences
Meanings
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that, that one
A reference to an entity regarded as relatively absent in terms of the discourse setting
ExamplesMatthew 3:1 Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
Matthew 7:22 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
Matthew 7:25 “And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.
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there, at that place
A position relatively far from the speaker, writer, or viewpoint person
ExamplesLuke 19:4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree in order to see Him, because He was about to pass through that way.
Hebrews 11:15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that country which they left, they would have had opportunity to return.
How it’s used In 9 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραιτέομαιto ask for 1
Named alongside itApposition
5 occurrences in 8 groups
- γεωργέωto cultivate land 1
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
- ἀκούωto hear 1
- καρποφορέωto bear fruit 1
- παραδέχομαιto accept 1
- πνεῦμαspirit 1
What it doesIt is the subject
48 occurrences in 34 groups
- λέγωto say 7
- ἔπωto say 4
- ἔρχομαιto come 3
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 3
- ἀποστέλλωto send 3
- Other words · 29 groups that occur once or twice (33) 33
What is done to itIt is the object
9 occurrences in 8 groups
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 2
- γινώσκωto know 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- μνημονεύωto remember, to recall, to think about again 1
- πιστεύωto believe 1
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
It is given or told toIndirect object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
- ἔπωto say 1
- τίκτωto give birth, to bear 1
What it is said to bePredicate
14 occurrences in 13 groups
- Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σπείρωto sow 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- εἰςto 4
- παράfrom, with, beside 3
- ἔμπροσθενbefore, in front of 2
- περίconcerning, about, for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
10 occurrences in 10 groups
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
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 6 words
- הוּא hûwʼ · H1931 · he, she, it
- Hebrew third-person pronoun serving as the primary translation equivalent for Greek ἐκεῖνος in demonstrative and anaphoric contexts, with both functioning as distal deictic markers ('that one' rather than 'this one') and anaphoric references to previously mentioned entities.
- הֵם hêm · H1992 · them
- Greek ἐκεῖνος and Hebrew הֵם both function as third-person demonstrative pronouns referring to distant or previously mentioned referents ('that one/those'), with ἐκεῖνος marking singular or neuter distal deixis while הֵם marks plural masculine distal reference.
- דֵּךְ dêk · H1791 · the same, this
- Greek ἐκεῖνος and Aramaic דֵּךְ both function as distal demonstrative pronouns ('that one'), with דֵּךְ serving as the standard Aramaic rendering of the Greek demonstrative in contexts requiring anaphoric or deictic reference to a previously mentioned or contextually remote entity.
- דִּכֵּן dikkên · H1797 · same, that, this
- ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos, G1565) ἐκεῖνος serves as the standard Greek demonstrative equivalent for Aramaic דִּכֵּן (dikkên, H1797) דִּכֵּן (that, same) in LXX/translation contexts, both denoting remote/distal deixis ('that one' as opposed to 'this one').
- הַלָּז hallâz · H1975 · this
- Hebrew demonstrative הַלָּז functions as a cross-linguistic equivalent of Greek ἐκεῖνος in deictic reference, both pointing to distant or previously mentioned referents with demonstrative force ('that one').
- אִלֵּךְ ʼillêk · H479 · these, those
- Aramaic demonstrative pronoun corresponding to Greek ἐκεῖνος in distal deictic function, both marking referents distant from speaker or previously mentioned in discourse.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- There, at that place83.2
- Used in Matthew 7:25 and 7:27, of the rain that fell and the floods that came and burst against that house built on the rock or the sand, the demonstrative marking the specific structure in view.
- That, that one92.30
- Used in Matthew 8:13, where Jesus tells the centurion it shall be done for him as he has believed, and it was healed in that hour, and in Matthew 7:22, where many will say to Jesus on that day, referring back to the day of judgment already introduced.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐκείνῃ, ἐκεῖνο (from ἐκεῖ, properly, the one there, cf. German dortig,derdort),…
1. used absolutely,
a. in antithesis, referring to the more remote subject: opposed to οὗτος, Lk 18:14; Jas 4:15; ὑμῖν... ἐκείνοις, Mt 13:11; Mk 4:11; ἐκεῖνοι... ἡμεῖς, Heb 12:25; ἄλλοι... ἄλλοι... ἐκεῖνος, Jn 9:9; ἐκεῖνον... ἐμέ, Jn 3:30; οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι... ἐκεῖνος δέ, Jn 2:20f; ὁ μέν κύριος Ἰησοῦς (R G T omit Ἰησοῦς WH Tr marginal reading brackets)... ἐκεῖνοι δέ, Mk 16:19f, etc.
b. of noted persons (as in classic Greek): in a bad sense, that notorious man, Jn 7:11; Jn 9:28; in a good sense — of the Lord Jesus, 1 Jn 2:6; 1 Jn 3:3, 1 Jn 3:5, 1 Jn 3:7, 1 Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 4:17; of the Holy Spirit, with an apposition added, ἐκεῖνος, τό πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, Jn 16:13.
c. referring to a noun immediately preceding, he, she, it, (Latinis,ea,id, German selbiger): Jn 7:45; Jn 5:46; Mk 16:11; Acts 3:13, etc.; cf. Winers Grammar, § 23, 1; (Buttmann, 104 (91). Here perhaps may be noticed its use together with αὐτός of the same subject in the same sentence: ἐζωγρημένοι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ (i. e. the devil) εἰς τό ἐκείνου θέλημα, 2 Tim 2:26; cf. Thucydides 1, 132, 6; 4, 29, 3; Xenophon, Cyril 4, 5, 20; see Riddell, the Apology of Plato, Appian, § 49; Kühner, § 467, 12; cf. ζωγρέω 2); equivalent to an emphatic (German er) he, etc., Mt 17:27; Jn 1:8; Jn 5:43; Tit 3:7; equivalent to the forcibly uttered German der (that one etc.), in which sense it serves to recall and lay stress upon nouns just before used (cf. our resumptive the same; Winer's Grammar, § 23, 4): Jn 1:18; Jn 5:39; Jn 12:48; Jn 14:26; Jn 15:26; especially is it thus resumptive of a subject expressed participially (Buttmann, 306 (262f)): Mk 7:15 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the pronoun), Mk 7:20; Jn 1:33; Jn 9:37 (ἐκεῖνος ἐστιν, namely, ὁ υἱός τοῦ Θεοῦ, see εἰμί, II. 5); Jn 10:1; Jn 14:21; Rom 14:14; 2 Cor 10:18; (Xenophon, Cyril 6, 2, 33 ὁ γάρ λογχην ἀκονων, ἐκεῖνος καί τήν ψυχήν τί παρακονα).
d. followed by ὅτι, Mt 24:43; followed by ὅς, Jn 13:26; Rom 14:15.
2. joined with nouns, and then the noun with the article either precedes, or (somewhat more rarely) follows it (Winers Grammar, 162 (153)) (Buttmann, 119f (104f));
a. in contrasts: ἡ πρώτη ἐκείνῃ, Heb 8:7.
b. used to distinguish accurately from others the things or the persons spoken of, (German selbig): Mt 7:25, Mt 7:27; Mt 10:15; Mt 18:32; Mk 3:24; Lk 6:48; Jn 18:15, and often; especially of Time — and of time past: ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, הָהֵם בַּיָמִים, at that time which has been spoken of; said of time which the writer either cannot or will not define more precisely and yet wishes to be connected with the time of the events just narrated: Mt 3:1; Mk 1:9; Mk 8:1; Lk 2:1 (Ex 2:11; Judg 18:1; 1 Sam 28:1); cf. Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 106f; at the time under consideration: Lk 4:2; Lk 9:36; the same phrase is used of time future: Mt 24:19; Acts 2:18 (from Joel 2:29 ()); Rev 9:6; likewise in the singular, ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρα, Lk 17:31; Jn 16:23, Jn 16:26. But the solemn phrase ἐκείνῃ ἡ ἡμέρα, or ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνῃ, simply sets future time in opposition to the present, that fateful day, that decisive day, when the Messiah will come to judge: Mt 7:22; Lk 6:23; Lk 10:12; 2 Thess 1:10; 2 Tim 1:12, 2 Tim 1:18; Rev 16:14 (where L T Tr WH omit ἐκείνης); so in the phrase ὁ αἰών ἐκεῖνος, Lk 20:35.
3. ἐκείνης (in Rec. δἰ ἐκείνης), scil. ὁδοῦ, adverbially, (by) that way: Lk 19:4; Winers Grammar, § 64, 5; (Buttmann, 171 (149); see ποῖος, at the end). John's use of the pronoun ἐκεῖνος is discussed by Steitz in the Studien und Kritiken for 1859, p. 497ff; 1861, p. 267ff, and by Alex. Buttmann, ibid. 1860, p. 505ff and in Hilgenfeld's Zeitsch. für wissenschaftl. Theol. 1862, p. 204ff; Buttmann clearly proves in opposition to Steitz that John's usage deviates in no respect from the Greek; Steitz, however, resorts to psychological considerations in the case of Jn 19:35 (regarding ἐκεῖνος there as expressing the writer's inward assurance. But Steitz is now understood to have modified his published views.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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