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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 - And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:19 - And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:13 - Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth said:

“Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever 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 - “And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - “Now therefore, make a new cart, take two milk cows which have never been yoked, and hitch the cows to the cart; and take their calves home, away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - Then Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:46

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:46 - Then Saul returned 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 greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 24:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:1 - Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, “Take note! David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the latter end? How long will it be then until you tell the people to return from pursuing their brethren?”

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel’s best and put them in battle array against the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - Then Absalom fled. And the young man who was keeping watch lifted his eyes and looked, and there, many people were coming from the road on the hillside behind him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 - So every man of Israel deserted David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah, from the Jordan as far as Jerusalem, remained loyal to their king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:3 - “surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is, from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:6 - For he held fast to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:13 - But Jeroboam caused an ambush to go around behind them; so they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:14 - And when Judah looked around, to their surprise the battle line was at both front and rear; and they cried out to the LORD, and the priests sounded the trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:33 - Thus Josiah removed all the abominations from all the country that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel diligently serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not depart from following the LORD God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:13 - In transgressing and lying against the LORD,
And departing from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:24 - “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:40 - ‘And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - No more praise of Moab.
In Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
‘Come, and let us cut her off as a nation.’
You also shall be cut down, O Madmen![fn]
The sword shall pursue you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:10 - Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea:

“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For the land has committed great harlotry
By departing from the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:3 - A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like the Garden of Eden before them,
And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
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