ὀψέ
opsé · G3796 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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late, late in the day
Pertaining to a point near the end of a day (normally after sunset but before night)
ExamplesMark 11:19 And whenever evening came, they would leave the city.
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evening
The period after sunset and before darkness (compare ἑσπέρα (hespéra, G2073))
ExamplesMark 13:35 “Therefore, stay alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—
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after
A point of time subsequent to another point of time, with the implication of relative lateness
ExamplesMatthew 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Evening67.197
- This domain covers ὀψέ naming the evening as a time of day, as Mark records Jesus and His disciples departing the city: “And whenever evening came, they would go out of the city.” (Mark 11:19)
- After67.51
- Here ὀψέ marks the time following a preceding event, as Matthew introduces the resurrection account: “Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.” (Matthew 28:1)
- Late, late in the day67.76
- This domain covers ὀψέ marking a late point within the day itself, as Mark records the timing of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem: “And He entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.” (Mark 11:11)
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (apparently from ὄπις; see ὀπίσω, at the beginning), adverb of time, after a long time,…
a. especially late in the day (namely, τῆς ἡμέρας, which is often added, as Thucydides 4, 93; Xenophon, Hellen. 2, 1, 23), i. e. at evening (Homer, Thucydides, Plato, others; for עֶבֶר עֵת, Gen 24:11): (Mk 11:1 ( T Tr marginal reading WH text (cf. Plutarch, Alex. 16,1)),; .
b. with a genitive (Winer's Grammar, § 54, 6), ὀψέ σαββάτων, the sabbath having just passed, after the sabbath, i. e.: at the early dawn of the first day of the week — (an interpretation absolutely demanded by the added specification τῇ ἐπιφωσκούσῃ κτλ.), Mt 28:1 cf. Mk 16:1 (ὀψέ τῶν βασιλέως χρόνων, long after the times of the king, Plutarch, Numbers 1; ὀψέ μυστηρίων, the mysteries being over, Philostr. vit. Apoll. 4, 18); (but an examination of the instances just cited (and others) will show that they fail to sustain the rendering after (although it is recognized by Passow, Pape, Schenkl, and other lexicographers); ὀψέ followed by a genitive seems always to be partitive, denoting late in the period specified by the genitive (and consequently still belonging to it), cf. Buttmann, § 132, 7 Rem.; Kühner, § 414, 5 c. β. Hence, in Matthew, the passage cited 'late on the sabbath'). Keim, iii, p. 552f (English translation, vi., 303f) endeavors to relieve the passage differently (by adopting the Vulg.vesperesabbati, on the evening of the sabbath), but without success. ((Cf. Keil, Comm. über Matth. at the passage.))
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
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