GreekG5504Adverb
χθές
chthes
“yesterday”
3Occurrences
G5504Strong's #
AdverbPart of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
"yesterday"; by extension, in time past or hitherto
of uncertain derivation;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
adv., yesterday: , (on the form, see Rutherford, NPhr., 370 f.).† ἐχθές, adverb ={χθές}, yesterday, ( 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 175, “Th.” 616, etc.; ἀπ᾽ ἐ. “Anthologia Graeca” (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus); μέσφα τό γ᾽ ἐ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus ); οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀ. today or yesterday, ( 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 456; οὐκ ἐ. *οὐδὲ πρῴην *5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58 ); ἐ. *καὶ τρίτης *[ἡμέρας] ( LXX., compare 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator . (*ἐχθές *is commoner than χθές) in Comedy texts and LXX, is the only form used in “NT”, and frequently in papyri of all periods, ( “PSI” .21 (3rd c.BC), etc.))
LXX: for תְּמוֹל, etc.
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Adverb
Morphology Code
G:ADV
Full Description
Greek Adverb
Occurrences
χθές appears 3 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Acts
1
Hebrews
1
John
1
Key Passages
Acts 7:28BSB
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
Hebrews 13:8BSB
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
John 4:52BSB
So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
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