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ἤδη
ḗdē · Greek · Strong's G2235 · 58 occurrences
The KJV renders 13 different Hebrew and Greek words as “now”
What it means
even now
apparently from G2228 (ἤ) (or possibly G2229 (ἦ)) and G1211 (δή);
How the KJV renders it
already, now, by this time
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“now”
“already”
also renders kᵉbâr (H3528)
Answers that weigh this word
- Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday or Friday?
- Is baptism required for salvation?
- Is the rapture biblical?
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?
- Will everyone ultimately be saved?
- Must you confess Jesus as Lord out loud to be saved?
Where it appears
58 occurrences in the Greek text, first 53 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 4:8 · ADV
You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
1 Corinthians 5:3 · ADV
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.
1 Corinthians 6:7 · ADV
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
1 John 2:8 · ADV
Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.
1 John 4:3 · ADV
and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.
1 Timothy 5:15 · ADV
For already some have turned away after Satan.
2 Peter 3:1 ADV2 Thessalonians 2:7 ADV2 Timothy 2:18 ADV2 Timothy 4:6 ADVActs 4:3 ADVActs 27:9 ADVJohn 3:18 ADVJohn 4:36 ADVJohn 4:51 ADVJohn 5:6 ADVJohn 7:14 ADVJohn 9:22 ADVJohn 9:27 ADVJohn 11:39 ADVJohn 13:2 ADVJohn 15:3 ADVJohn 19:28 ADVJohn 19:33 ADVJohn 21:4 ADVJohn 21:14 ADVLuke 3:9 ADVLuke 7:6 ADVLuke 11:7 ADVLuke 12:49 ADVLuke 14:17 ADVLuke 19:37 ADVLuke 21:30 ADVLuke 23:44 ADVLuke 24:29 ADVMatthew 3:10 ADVMatthew 5:28 ADVMatthew 14:15 ADVMatthew 14:24 ADVMatthew 15:32 ADVMatthew 17:12 ADVMatthew 24:32 ADVMark 4:37 ADVMark 6:35 ADVMark 8:2 ADVMark 11:11 ADVMark 13:28 ADVMark 15:42 ADVMark 15:44 ADVPhilippians 3:12 ADVPhilippians 4:10 ADVRomans 1:10 ADVRomans 13:11 ADV
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