adverb
epaurion
Strong’sG1887
tomorrow
stem epauri-17 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
ἐπαύριον means the next day, the morrow — the day following a day already mentioned 1234. It is an adverb, regularly used with "day" (either expressed or understood), so that "the morrow" effectively means "the following day" 13. It occurs this way in both the Old and New Testament usage cited 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G1887 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
adverb on the morrow, τῇ ἐ. ἡμέρᾳ Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἡμέρα ἡ ἐ. LXXon the morrow, NT+3rd c.BC+
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.
17 occurrences, every one of them listed
epaurion17×
Matthew 27:62Ta de epaurion, hotinas atō meta tan paraskevan, sunagila …The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the …
Mark 11:12Kai ta epaurion exercharantoiu autoiu apo Bēthaniau peinata.The next day, when they had left Bethany, Jesus …
John 1:29Ta epaurion blepatō ton Iēsun erchorōnton pros auton, …The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him …
John 1:35Ta epaurion palin stēatelē tos Iōannos kai ek …The next day John was there again with two …
John 1:43Ta epaurion thelata exerchara eis tan Galilaian. kai …The next day Jesus decided to set out for …
John 6:22Ta epaurion tos ochlos tos stēarēntos peran tau …The next day, the crowd that had remained on …
John 12:12Ta epaurion tos ochlos pollos tos ercharantos eis …The next day the great crowd that had come …
Acts 10:9Ta de epaurion hodoiporarōntoiu ekeinoiu kai ta pola engizarōntoiu …The next day at about the sixth hour, as …
Acts 10:23eiskalerantos oun autoin xenizata. Ta de epaurion anastēarantos exerchata sun autoi, kai tinois …… in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with …
Acts 10:24ta de epaurion eiserchata eis tan Kaisareian. tos de …The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius …
Acts 14:20… eiserchata eis tan polan. kai ta epaurion exerchata sun to Barnabo eis Derban.… back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
Acts 20:7… Paulos dialegote autoi, mellarōntos exeiarō ta epaurion, parateinate tē ton logon mechris mesonuktieu.… Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept …
Acts 21:8ta de epaurion exercharantois erchana eis Kaisareian, kai eisercharantois …Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and …
Acts 22:30Ta de epaurion boulorōntos gnōskara tem asfalem tem tinem …The next day the commander, wanting to learn the …
Acts 23:32ta de epaurion easarantois toin hippeusoin aperchorō sun auto …The next day they returned to the barracks and …
Acts 25:6… ē deka, katabainarantos eis Kaisareian, ta epaurion kathizarantos epi teu bēmeu keleuata ton …… Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judgment seat …
Acts 25:23Ta oun epaurion ercharantou tou Agrippou kai tau Bernikau …The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great …