Greek adverb · G3694
ὀπίσω
opisoop-is'-o
prop., as in cl., adv.; By a usage not found in cl., and in LXX representing the
35 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: opísō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3694is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3694
to the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun)
The King James renders it: after, back(-ward), (+ get) behind, + follow.
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
opiso is rendered "prop., as in cl., adv.; By a usage not found in cl., and in LXX representing the". It stands 35 times in the Greek text, across ten books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "prop., as in cl., adv.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:11I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
The first use
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Matthew 3:11ὀπίσω
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: prop., as in cl., adv., and By a usage not found in cl., and in LXX representing the.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop., as in cl., adv.__(a) of time (not in NT); __(b) of place, back, behind, after | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 24:18And let no one in the field return for his cloak. |
| By a usage not found in cl., and in LXX representing the | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 3:11I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I… |
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὄπισθεν | opisthen | after | Uses7 |
The words it stands beside
All 35, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ὀπίσω35
The grammar of each form
- preposition26PREP
- adverb9ADV
Matthew
six uses
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: behind
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
Mark
six uses
And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
“Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: behind
Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
Luke
seven uses
As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: behind
Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Jesus answered, “See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
John
seven uses
John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: After
From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
When Jesus said, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: back
Acts
two uses
After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and drew away people after him. He too perished, and all his followers were scattered.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Philippians
one use
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
- ὀπίσωopisoadverbtagged: behind
1 Timothy
one use
For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
2 Peter
one use
Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Jude
one use
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
Revelation
three uses
On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: behind
Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
One of the heads of the beast appeared to be mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.
- ὀπίσωopisoprepositiontagged: after
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.