ἔπειτα
épeita · G1899 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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then, afterwards, later
A point of time following another point
ExamplesLuke 16:7 “Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred kors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
John 11:7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”
1 Corinthians 12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues.
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 1 entry
- Then, afterwards, later67.44
- This adverb marks the next event in a temporal or logical sequence, used of the manager in Jesus' parable then turning to a second debtor — "Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?'" (Luke 16:7), and of Paul's sequential list of the risen Christ's post-resurrection appearances, including that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, then to James, then to all the apostles — "After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time... then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles" (1 Corinthians 15:6-7).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (ἐπί, εἶτα), thereupon, thereafter, then, afterward; used a. of time: Mk 7:5 R G;…
b. in enumerations it is used α. of time and order: πρῶτον... ἔπειτα, 1 Cor 15:46; 1 Thess 4:17; πρότερον... ἔπειτα, Heb 7:27; ἀπαρχή... ἔπειτα, 1 Cor 15:23; εἶτα (but T Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading ἔπειτα)... ἔπειτα, 1 Cor 15:5, 1 Cor 15:6; ἔπειτα... ἔπειτα, 1 Cor 15:7 L marginal reading T Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading β. of order alone: πρῶτον... ἔπειτα, Heb 7:2; τρίτον... ἔπειτα... ἔπειτα (R G εἶτα), 1 Cor 12:28.
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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