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Greek adverb · G5504

χθές

chtheskhthes

yesterday

3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: chthés

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5504

"yesterday"; by extension, in time past or hitherto

The King James renders it: yesterday.

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

chthes is rendered "yesterday". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • One of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 4:52So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”

The first use

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.”

John 4:52ἐχθὲς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's three uses is in John.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • yesterday3

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.

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

  • ἐχθὲς3

The grammar of each form

  • adverb3ADV

John

one use
  • 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.”

    John 4:52

    • ἐχθὲςechthesadverbtagged: Yesterday

Acts

one use
  • Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’

    Acts 7:28

    • ἐχθὲςechthesadverbtagged: yesterday

Hebrews

one use
  • Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

    Hebrews 13:8

    • ἐχθὲςechthesadverbtagged: yesterday

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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