preposition
achris
Strong’sG891
as far as, up to, until
stem achri-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄχρι
(and Epic ἄχρις, bef. vowel (v. MM, s.v.), Ro 11:25 T, Ga 3:19 T, WH, mg., He 3:13);
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G891 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidakh'-ree
(of time) until or (of place) up to
Fromakin to G206 (through the idea of a terminus);
King Jamesas far as, for, in(-to), till, (even, un-)to, until, while.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
and ἄχρις (see. entry near the end):
I adverb to the uttermost, τένοντε καὶ ὀστέα λᾶας ἀναιδὴς ἄχρις ἀπηλοίησενRefs 8th c.BC+
I.2 after Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄχρι πρὸς τὸν σκοπόν, πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἄχρι ἐπὶ πολὺ τῶν πλευρῶνRefs 4th c.BC+: less frequently after the Noun, ἐς τέλος ἄχριςRefs 1st c.BC+adverb, ἄχρι πόρρω still farther, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II preposition with genitive, even to, as far as,
II.1 of Time, until, ἄχρι μάλα κνέφαος until deep in the night, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄχρι δὲ τούτου until then, NT+6th c.BC+continually, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 of Space, as far as, even to, ἄχρι τῆς ἐσόδου τοῦ ἱροῦRefs 5th c.BC+: after its case, ἰνίου ἄχριςRefs 3rd c.BC+
II.3 of Measure or Degree, ἄχρι τούτου up to this point, NT+5th c.BC+
III as conjunction, ἄχρι, ἄχρις with or without οὗ,
III.1 of Time, until, so long as, ἄχρι οὗ ὅδε ὁ λόγος ἐγράφετοRefs 5th c.BC+; ἄχρι οὗ ἄν or ἄχρι ἄν with Subj., ἄχρι ἂν σχολάσῃ till he should be at leisure, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄχρι ἂν ἔχῃ τὸ ἴδιον ἐντελές [ἡ ἱστορία] Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἄχρι οὗ τελευτήσῃ (variant{-σει}) Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄχρι ἄν, c.infinitive, Epist.Refs 1st c.BC+: with infinitive only, ἄχρις ἱκέσθαι ὀστέονRefs 4th c.AD+
III.2 of Space, so far as, διώξας, ἄχρι οὗ ἀσφαλὲς ᾤετο εἶναιRefs 5th c.BC+: with subjunctive, αὐξάνεται εἰς μῆκος, ἄχρι οὗ δὴ ἐφίκηται τοῦ ἡλίουRefs 4th c.BC+; compare μέχρι throughout. —Epic dialect poets use ἄχρι or ἄχρις, as the metre requires: in Ionic dialect μέχρι is preferred (see. above): but ἄχρι, -ις are more common in Refs 8th c.BC+ before both consonants and vowels,Refs 2nd c.AD+; and so in Attic dialect Inscrr. (where it is somewhat less frequently than μέχρι): ἄχρι ἄν with hiatus in Refs 4th c.BC+ —Never in Trag. (ἄχρι, ={ṃṃ-χρι}, compare μέχρι.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
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Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
achris2×
Galatians 3:19… tos nomos? taiu parabasiaiu charin prostithita, achris hou erchateia tem spermem he epangelotē, …… It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to …
Hebrews 3:13alla parakalavōr heautoin kata hekastan hēmeran, achris hou tem Sēmeron kalotō, hina mē …But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that …