Greek adverb · G3819
πάλαι
palaipal'-ahee
of old
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pálai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3819is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3819
(adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient
The King James renders it: any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past.
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
palai is rendered "of old". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 11:21“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
The first use
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 11:21πάλαι
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
- long ago4
- former1
- of old1
- Previously1
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 7, 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
- πάλαι7
The grammar of each form
- adverb7ADV
Matthew
one use
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: long ago
Mark
one use
Pilate was surprised to hear that Jesus was already dead, so he summoned the centurion to ask if this was so.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: of old
Luke
one use
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: long ago
2 Corinthians
one use
Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.
- Πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: Previously
Hebrews
one use
On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: long ago
2 Peter
one use
But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: former
Jude
one use
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- πάλαιpalaiadverbtagged: long ago
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 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.