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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 BoxGen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:13 - The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the LORD and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets kept sounding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will 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 behind the harvesters.’ She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - “Now then, get a new cart ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:46 - Then Saul stopped pursuing the Philistines, and they withdrew to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the LORD all that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Then Abner said to him, “Turn aside to the right or to the left; take on one of the young men and strip him of his weapons.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:30 - Then Joab stopped pursuing Abner and assembled the whole army. Besides Asahel, nineteen of David’s men were found missing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 - So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bikri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - So I am about to wipe out Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:6 - He held fast to the LORD and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. Then they cried out to the LORD. The priests blew their trumpets

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territory belonging to the Israelites, and he had all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. As long as he lived, they did not fail to follow the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 - rebellion and treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, inciting revolt and oppression, uttering lies our hearts have conceived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:24 - But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:40 - I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon[fn] people will plot her downfall: ‘Come, let us put an end to that nation.’ You, the people of Madmen,[fn] will also be silenced; the sword will pursue you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10 - which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste— nothing escapes them.
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