Greek noun (feminine) · G2073
ἑσπέρα
hesperahes-per'-ah
evening
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hespéra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2073is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2073
feminine of an adjective hesperos (evening); the eve ( being implied)
The King James renders it: evening(-tide).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hespera is rendered "evening". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 24:29But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
Luke 24:29ἑσπέραν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- evening3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἑσπέρα1
- ἑσπέραν1
- ἑσπέρας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Luke
one use
But they pleaded with Him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So He went in to stay with them.
- ἑσπέρανhesperannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: evening
Acts
two uses
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in custody until the next day.
- ἑσπέραhesperanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: evening
So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
- ἑσπέραςhesperasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: evening
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.