χθές
chthés · G5504 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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yesterday
A day prior to the time of a discourse
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always, eternally, past and present and future
(An idiom, literally: yesterday, today, and forever) An unlimited extension of time, from the past into the future
ExamplesHebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.
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 3 words
- תְּמוֹל tᵉmôwl · H8543 · yesterday, (what used to be done) before, in the past
- Hebrew תְּמוֹל and Greek χθές both denote 'yesterday' as the literal day before today, and both extend to general past time ('formerly', 'in time past'); the Greek form appears in LXX as the standard rendering of this Hebrew temporal term.
- אֶמֶשׁ ʼemesh · H570 · twilight, evening, last night
- אֶמֶשׁ (ʼemesh, H570) and χθές (chthés, G5504) are direct cross-linguistic equivalents both denoting 'yesterday' as a temporal reference point, with both extending to recent past time; Hebrew אֶמֶשׁ specifically includes 'last night' in its semantic range while Greek χθές functions primarily as the standard adverb for the previous day.
- אֶתְמוֹל ʼethmôwl · H865 · yesterday, (what used to be done) before, in the past
- Hebrew אֶתְמוֹל (ʼethmôwl, H865) and Greek χθές (chthés, G5504) both denote the temporal concept 'yesterday' and by extension recent past time, functioning as direct cross-linguistic equivalents for this temporal adverb across Hebrew Scripture and its Greek translation.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Yesterday67.203
- John 4:52 recounts the servants telling the official, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
- Always, eternally, past and present and future67.87
- Hebrews 13:8 declares, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever.”
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon and (Rec., so Griesbach in Acts and Heb.) χθές (on which forms cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p.…
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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