ἅμα
háma · G260 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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at the same time
A point of time which is emphatically simultaneous with another point of time
ExamplesActs 24:26 At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and talk with him.
Acts 27:40 And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and they hoisted the foresail to the wind and were heading for the beach.
Colossians 4:3 praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned;
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together with, in addition
A marker of association, involving additional items affected by some event
ExamplesMatthew 13:29 “But he said, ‘No; while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
Matthew 20:1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Romans 3:12 THEY HAVE ALL TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME CORRUPT; THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.”
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
- יַחַד yachad · H3162 · together, both, all
- Both denote simultaneity or togetherness, with ἅμα (háma, G260) emphasizing temporal concurrence ('at the same time') and יַחַד (yachad, H3162) emphasizing spatial or collective unity ('together, alike'), though both overlap in contexts requiring joint action or simultaneous presence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- At the same time67.34
- In Acts 24:26, Felix delayed Paul's case: “At the same time (háma) he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul,” where the word marks two things happening concurrently.
- Together with, in addition89.114
- In Matthew 13:29, the landowner warns, “while you are gathering up the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with (háma) them,” where the word marks one action occurring together with, and alongside, another.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Sanskritsa, sama; English same; Latinsimul; German sammt, etc.; Curtius, § 440; Vanicek,…
1. adverb, at the same time, at once, together: Acts 24:26; Acts 27:40; Col 4:3; 1 Tim 5:13; Phm 1:22; all to a man, every one, Rom 3:12.
2. preposition (Winers Grammar, 470 (439)), together with, with the dative: Mt 13:29. ἅμα πρωιearly in the morning: Mt 20:1 (in Greek writings ἅμα τῷ ἡλίῳ, ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρα). In 1 Thess 4:17 and 1 Thess 5:10, where ἅμα is followed by σύν, ἅμα is an adverb (at the same time) and must be joined to the verb.
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
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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