ἀλλαχόθεν
allachóthen · G237 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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from elsewhere, from some other way
Extension from a source which is different
ExamplesJohn 10:1 “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Contrasting words 2 words
- ἐντεῦθεν enteûthen · G1782 · from here
- Adverb meaning 'from here' or 'from this place,' the direct lexical opposite of 'from elsewhere' (ἀλλαχόθεν). Where ἀλλαχόθεν indicates origin from another/different place, ἐντεῦθεν indicates origin from this/the current place.
- ἐνθάδε entháde · G1759 · here
- Adverb meaning 'here' or 'in this place,' functioning as a locational opposite to 'from elsewhere.' While ἀλλαχόθεν indicates origin from a different place, ἐνθάδε indicates presence or origin in this place.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Elsewhere83.4
- In Mark 1:38, Jesus tells His disciples, “Let's go somewhere else (allachóthen) to the towns nearby, so that I may also preach there,” naming another location distinct from where they currently were.
- From elsewhere, from some other way84.8
- In John 10:1, Jesus warns that whoever “does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way (allachóthen), he is a thief and a robber,” where the word marks an illegitimate point of entry from somewhere other than the proper door.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb, from another place: Jn 10:1 (equivalent to ἄλλοθεν (which the grammarians prefer,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
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