adverb
ekpalai
Strong’sG1597
from of old, long since
stem ekpalai-2 times in the New Testamentnever 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.
*† ἔκ-παλαι
adv.(of a class of compound adverbs common in late Gk.; v. Mayor on 2 Pe, l.c.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1597 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
adverb for ἐκ πάλαι, for a long time, NT+1st c.AD+
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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
ekpalai2×
2 Peter 2:3“long ago”… logoi vin emporeueli; hoi tem krimem ekpalai ouk argatō, kai tas apōleias autoiu …In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not …
2 Peter 3:5… autoin houtem thelarōntoin hoti ouranois ale ekpalai kai gēas ek hudeu kai dia …… they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed …