προσφάτως
prosphátōs · G4373 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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recently
Pertaining to a point of time preceding another point of time, but with a relatively short interval
ExamplesActs 18:2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἄρτι árti · G737 · now, just now, presently
- Greek temporal adverb meaning 'just now' or 'at this very moment,' overlaps semantically with προσφάτως in indicating recent time, though ἄρτι emphasizes more immediate present whereas προσφάτως suggests 'recently' in a slightly broader temporal window.
Contrasting words 2 words
- πάλαι pálai · G3819 · long ago, of long ago, all this time
- Greek temporal adverb meaning 'long ago' or 'of old,' the direct lexical opposite of προσφάτως ('recently') on the temporal axis from past to present.
- ἀρχαῖος archaîos · G744 · for a long time, from the beginning, ancient
- Greek adjective meaning 'ancient' or 'old,' lexically opposite to the sense of recency conveyed by προσφάτως, though ἀρχαῖος is an adjective rather than an adverb.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Recently67.23
- The adverb describes an event that occurred a short time before the present. Luke's account of Paul meeting Aquila uses this term: “And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome” (Acts 18:2).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (see the preceding word), lately: Acts 18:2. (Deut 24:7 (5); Ezek 11:3; Judith…
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
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