ἤδη
ḗdē · G2235 · Greek · 61 occurrences
Meanings
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already
A point of time preceding another point of time and implying completion
ExamplesMatthew 3:10 “And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 5:28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew 14:15 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This place is secluded and the hour is already past to eat; send the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
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already now, now at last, now at length
(An idiom, literally: already sometime) A time simultaneous with the discourse but in relationship to preceding time
ExamplesRomans 1:10 always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you.
Philippians 4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned before, but you lacked an opportunity to act.
2 Peter 3:1 Beloved, this is now the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of a reminder,
How it’s used In 1 role
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 2 groups
- λέγωto say 1
- προσέρχομαιto come to, to approach 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 2 words
- כְּבָר kᵉbâr · H3528 · already, now
- Hebrew כְּבָר (kᵉbâr, H3528) and Greek ἤδη (ḗdē, G2235) both denote temporal anteriority or present completion ('already', 'even now'), functioning as aspectual adverbs marking that an event or state has occurred or obtained by the reference time.
- עַתָּה ʻattâh · H6258 · now, therefore, now then
- Greek ἤδη emphasizes the "already" aspect of present time (temporal progression completed), while Hebrew עַתָּה functions as the unmarked present temporal marker "now" with broader application including immediate present and transitional "and now" discourse functions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Already67.20
- In Matthew 3:10, John the Baptist warns, “the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down,” using this adverb for something that has come to pass.
- Already now, now at last, now at length67.40
- In Matthew 14:24, of the disciples' boat it is written, “the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves,” using this adverb for a state reached at last, at that point in time.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (from Homer down; on the derivation see Vanicek, p. 745; Peile, p. 395), in the N.…
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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