adverb
echthes
Strong’sG5504
yesterday
stem echthe-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
ἐχθές (Rec. χθές),
adv.,[in LXX for תְּמוֹל, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5504 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhthes
"yesterday"; by extension, in time past or hitherto
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesyesterday.
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
adverb (lengthened ἐχθές (which see); where the word occurs in NT, NT and χθέ; χθές is not found in Ptolemaic papyri, but in Refs 3rd c.AD+:—yesterday, Refs 5th c.BC+ substantive, ἡ χ. ὁμολογία, οἱ χ. λόγοι,Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. μὲν.., τὰ νῦν δὲ.. Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν variant in LXX+5th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit hyás 'yesterday', Latin heri, hesternus, OHG. gestaron 'yesterday', etc.)
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
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
echthes2×
Acts 7:28… min sis thelasō hon tropon anairasa echthes ton Aiguption?… me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
Hebrews 13:8Iēsus Christos echthes kai sēmeron tos autos, kai eis …Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Echthes1×
John 4:52… kompsoterem echata; legala oun auto hoti Echthes hōran hebdoman afiēkata auton tos puretos.… told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”