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Lexicon :: Strong's G3693 - opisthen

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ὄπισθεν
Transliteration
opisthen (Key)
Pronunciation
op'-is-then
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From opis (regard, from ὀπτάνομαι (G3700)) with enclitic of source
mGNT
7x in 1 unique form(s) TR
7x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
31x in 3 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:289,702

Strong’s Definitions

ὄπισθεν ópisthen, op'-is-then; from ὄπις ópis (regard; from G3700) with enclitic of source; from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time):—after, backside, behind.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G3693 in the following manner: behind (4x), after (2x), backside (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G3693 in the following manner: behind (4x), after (2x), backside (1x).

  1. from behind, on the back, behind, after

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὄπισθεν ópisthen, op'-is-then; from ὄπις ópis (regard; from G3700) with enclitic of source; from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time):—after, backside, behind.
STRONGS G3693:
ὄπισθεν (see ὀπίσω), adverb of place, from behind, on the back, behind, after: Matthew 9:20; Mark 5:21; Luke 8:44; Revelation 4:6; Revelation 5:1 (on which see γράφω, 3). As a preposition it is joined with the genitive (like ἔμπροσθεν, ἔξωθεν, etc. (Winers Grammar, § 54, 6; Buttmann, § 146, 1)): Matthew 15:23; Luke 23:26; (Revelation 1:10 WH marginal reading). (From Homer down; the Sept. for אַחֲרֵי, sometimes for אָחור.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
9:20; 15:23
Mark
5:21
Luke
8:44; 23:26
Revelation
1:10; 4:6; 5:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3693 matches the Greek ὄπισθεν (opisthen),
which occurs 31 times in 30 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:46 - Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret[fn] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - [fn] When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David’s servants nineteen men besides Asahel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him[fn] by the side of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops[fn] were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 - transgressing, and denying the LORD,
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speaking oppression and revolt,
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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - the renown of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
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You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
the sword shall pursue you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10 - And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Fire devours before them,
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The land is like the garden of Eden before them,
but behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
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