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ἐπέκεινα

epékeina · G1900 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. beyond, farther away

    A position farther away than a reference point

    Examples

    Acts 7:43 ‘YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF YOUR GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL DEPORT YOU BEYOND BABYLON.’

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
הָלְאָה hâlᵉʼâh · H1973 · beyond, onwards, further
ἐπέκεινα (epékeina, G1900) ἐπέκεινα denotes spatial extension 'beyond' or 'on the further side of' a reference point, functioning as a Greek rendering of הָלְאָה (hâlᵉʼâh, H1973) הָלְאָה's directional sense of movement or position 'beyond' an established boundary.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Beyond, farther away83.55
This adverb denotes a location farther away in the direction indicated, used of Stephen's citation of the prophecy that Israel would be deported beyond Babylon — "I also will deport you beyond Babylon" (Acts 7:43).
Word family 9 words

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

ἐκεῖ ekeî · G1563 · there, at that place · 95×ἐκεῖνος ekeînos · G1565 · that, that one, there · 244×ἐκεῖθεν ekeîthen · G1564 · from there, from that place · 27×κἀκεῖνος kakeînos · G2548 · that, that one · 22×κἀκεῖ kakeî · G2546 · and there, there too · 10×κἀκεῖθεν kakeîthen · G2547 · from there, from that place, then · 10×ἐκεῖσε ekeîse · G1566 · there, at that place · 2×ἐπέκειναepékeina · G1900ὑπερέκεινα hyperékeina · G5238 · beyond, farther away · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (equivalent to ἐπ' ἐκεῖνα namely, μέρη (cf. Winers Grammar, § 6, the passage cited at the…
(equivalent to ἐπ' ἐκεῖνα namely, μέρη (cf. Winers Grammar, § 6, the passage cited at the end)), adv, beyond: with the genitive, Βαβυλῶνος, Acts 7:43. (Often in Greek writings from Herodotus down both with and without the genitive; in the Sept. Amos 5:27; Gen 35:16; Jer 22:19.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Beyond, On the Other Side Of1 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.

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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