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Lexicon :: Strong's G3694 - opisō

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ὀπίσω
Transliteration
opisō (Key)
Pronunciation
op-is'-o
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as ὄπισθεν (G3693) with enclitic of direction
mGNT
35x in 1 unique form(s) TR
36x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
328x in 1 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:289,702

Strong’s Definitions

ὀπίσω opísō, op-is'-o; from the same as G3693 with enclitic of direction; to the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun):—after, back(-ward), (+ get) behind, + follow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's G3694 in the following manner: after (22x), behind (6x), back (with G1519) (with G3588) (5x), back (1x), follow (1x), backward (with G1519) (with G3588) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's G3694 in the following manner: after (22x), behind (6x), back (with G1519) (with G3588) (5x), back (1x), follow (1x), backward (with G1519) (with G3588) (1x).

  1. back, behind, after, afterwards

    1. of place: things that are behind

    2. of time: after

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὀπίσω opísō, op-is'-o; from the same as G3693 with enclitic of direction; to the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun):—after, back(-ward), (+ get) behind, + follow.
STRONGS G3694:
ὀπίσω ((perhaps) from ἡ ὄπις; and this from ἐπω, ἕπομαι, to follow (but cf. Vanicek, p. 530)), adverb of place and time, from Homer down; the Sept. for אַחַר, אָחור and especially for אַחֲרֵי; (at the) back, behind, after;
1. adverbially of place: ἑστάναι, Luke 7:38; ἐπιστρέψαι ὀπίσω, back, Matthew 24:18 (ὑποστρέφειν ὀπίσω, Josephus, Antiquities 6, 1, 3); τά ὀπίσω, the things that are behind, Philippians 3:13 (14); εἰς τά ὀπίσω ἀπέρχεσθαι, to go backward, Vulg.abire retrorsum, John 18:6; to return home, of those who grow recreant to Christ's teaching and cease to follow him, John 6:66; στρέφεσθαι, to turn oneself back, John 20:14; ἐπιστρέφειν, to return back to places left, Mark 13:16; Luke 17:31; ὑποστρέψαι εἰς τά ὀπίσω, tropically, of those who return to the manner of thinking and living already abandoned, 2 Peter 2:21 Lachmann; βλέπειν (Vulg. (aspicere or)respicere retro (A. V. to look back)), Luke 9:62.
2. By a usage unknown to Greek authors, as a preposition with the genitive (Winers Grammar, § 54, 6; Buttmann, § 146, 1);
a. of place: Revelation 1:10 (WH marginal reading ὄπισθεν); Revelation 12:15 (Numbers 25:8; Song of Solomon 2:9); in phrases resembling the Hebrew (cf. Winers Grammar, 30; Buttmann, as above and 172 (150)): ὀπίσω τίνος ἔρχεσθαι to follow anyone as a guide, to be his disciple or follower, Matthew 16:24; Luke 9:23; Mark 8:34 R L Tr marginal reading WH; (cf. Luke 14:27); also ἀκολουθεῖν, Mark 8:34 G T Tr text; Matthew 10:38 (see ἀκολουθέω, 2 at the end); πορεύεσθαι, to join oneself to one as an attendant and follower, Luke 21:8 (Sir. 46:10); to seek something one lusts after, 2 Peter 2:10 (cf. Winers Grammar, 594 (553); Buttmann, 184 (160)); ἀπέρχομαι ὀπίσω τίνος, to go off in order to follow one, to join one's party, Mark 1:20; John 12:19; to run after a thing which one lusts for (cf. Buttmann, as above), ἑτέρας σαρκός, Jude 1:7; δεῦτε ἐπίσω μου (see δεῦτε, 1), Matthew 4:19; Mark 1:17; ἀποστέλλειν τινα ὀπίσω τίνος, Luke 19:14; ἀφισταναι, ἀποσπᾶν, τινα ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, to draw one away to (join) his party, Acts 5:37; Acts 20:30; ἐκτρέπεσθαι, to turn out of the right path, turn aside from rectitude, 1 Timothy 5:15; by a pregnant construction, after θαυμάζειν, to wonder after i. e. to be drawn away by admiration to follow one (Buttmann, 185 (160f)), Revelation 13:3 (πᾶς ὁ λαός ἐξέστη ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, 1 Samuel 13:7); ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου (A. V. get thee behind me), out of my sight: Luke 4:8 R L brackets; Matthew 4:10 (G L brackets); Matthew 16:23; Mark 8:33.
b. of time, after: ἐρήξεσθαι ὀπίσω τίνος, to make his public appearance after (subsequently to) one, Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; John 1:15, 27, 30 (ὀπίσω τοῦ σαββάτου, Nehemiah 13:19).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
25:8
1 Samuel
13:7
Nehemiah
13:19
Song of Songs
2:9
Matthew
3:11; 4:10; 4:19; 10:38; 16:23; 16:24; 24:18
Mark
1:7; 1:17; 1:20; 8:33; 8:34; 8:34; 13:16
Luke
4:8; 7:38; 9:23; 9:62; 14:27; 17:31; 19:14; 21:8
John
1:15; 1:27; 1:30; 6:66; 12:19; 18:6; 20:14
Acts
5:37; 20:30
Philippians
3:13
1 Timothy
5:15
2 Peter
2:10; 2:21
Jude
1:7
Revelation
1:10; 12:15; 13:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3694 matches the Greek ὀπίσω (opisō),
which occurs 36 times in 36 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:11 - *I* indeed baptise you with water to repentance, but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not fit to bear; *he* shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:19 - and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:38 - And he who does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:23 - But turning round, he said to Peter, Get away behind me, Satan; thou art an offence to me, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:24 - Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one desires to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:18 - and let not him that is in the field turn back to take his garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:7 - And he preached, saying, There comes he that is mightier than I after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not fit to stoop down and unloose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:17 - And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of men;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 1:20 - and straightway he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, they went away after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:33

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:33 - But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:34 - And having called the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, Whoever desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:16 - and him that is in the field not return back to take his garment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:8 - And Jesus answering him said, It is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:38 - and standing at his feet behind him weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the myrrh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:23 - And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:62

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:62 - But Jesus said to him, No one having laid his hand on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:27 - and whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 17:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 17:31 - In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:14 - But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this man should reign over us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:8 - And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am he, and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not therefore after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:15 - (John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:27 - he who comes after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:30 - He it is of whom I said, A man comes after me who takes a place before me, because he *was* before me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:66

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:66 - From that time many of his disciples went away back and walked no more with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:19 - The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 18:6 - When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went away backward and fell to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:14 - Having said these things she turned backward and beholds Jesus standing there, and knew not that it was Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:37 - After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away a number of people after him; and *he* perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:30 - and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:13 - Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing -- forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:15 - For already some have turned aside after Satan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:10 - and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jde 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJde 1:7 - as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities around them, committing greedily fornication, in like manner with them, and going after other flesh, lie there as an example, undergoing the judgment of eternal fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 1:10 - I became in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:15 - And the serpent cast out of his mouth behind the woman water as a river, that he might make her be as one carried away by a river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:3 - and one of his heads was as slain to death, and his wound of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.
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