μεταξύ
metaxý · G3342 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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between
A position defined by the location of two objects, one on each side
ExamplesMatthew 23:35 so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
Luke 11:51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’
Luke 16:26 ‘And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who want to go over from here to you will not be able, nor will any people cross over from there to us.’
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between … and
A marker of an exclusive association
ExamplesMatthew 18:15 “Now if your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Acts 15:9 and He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
Romans 2:15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
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next
A point of time which is subsequent in order to a previous point of time
ExamplesJohn 4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”
Acts 13:42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people repeatedly begged to have these things spoken to them the next Sabbath.
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
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
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 3 entries
- Next67.54
- This sense denotes the point in time immediately following. Acts 13:42 states that the people repeatedly begged “to have these things spoken to them the next Sabbath.”
- Between83.11
- This sense denotes a spatial position located between two parties. Matthew 18:15 instructs, “if your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private,” addressing the matter directly between the two.
- Between … and89.115
- This sense denotes an intervening span connecting two points. John 4:31 states, “Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’”
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from μετά and ξύν, equivalent to σύν), adverb; 1. between (in the midst, Homer, Iliad 1,…
1. between (in the midst, Homer, Iliad 1, 156; Wis. 18:23), a. adverbially of time, ἐν τῷ μεταξύ, meanwhile, in the mean time, cf. ἐν τῷ καθεξῆς (see καθεξῆς): Jn 4:31 (Xenophon, symp. 1, 14; with χρόνῳ added, Plato, rep. 5, p. 450 c.; Josephus, Antiquities 2, 7, 1; ὁ μεταξύ χρόνος, Herodian, 3, 8, 20 (10 edition, Bekker cf. Winers Grammar, 592f (551))).
b. like a preposition with a genitive (cf. Winers Grammar, 54, 6): of place (from Herodotus 1, 6 down), Mt 23:35; Lk 11:51; Lk 16:26; Acts 12:6; of parties, Mt 18:15; Acts 15:9; Rom 2:15.
2. according to a somewhat rare usage of later Greek (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 21, 2 ((yet see Müller at the passage)); b. j. 5, 4, 2; Plutarch, inst. Lac. 42; de discr. amici et adul. c. 22; Theophilus ad Autol. 1, 8 and Otto in the place cited; (Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 44, 2, 3 [ET]; the Epistle of Barnabas 13, 5 [ET])), after, afterward: τό μεταξύ σάββατον, the next (following) sabbath, Acts 13:42 ((where see Meyer)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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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