adverb
eschatōs
Strong’sG2079
to be at the extremity
stem eschatō-once 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.
* ἐσχάτως
adv.,G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2079 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also ος, ον Refs 4th c.BC+(probably from ἐκ, ἐξ, perhaps eĝhzκατος (compare ἐχθός) like{ἔγ-κατα}):
I of Space, as always in Refs 8th c.BC+, farthest, uttermost, extreme, θάλαμος ἔ. the hindmost chamber, Refs 8th c.BC+at the end of the lines, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἔσχατοι ἀνδρῶν, of the Aethiopians, Refs 8th c.BC+; τάξις ἐ. the farthest part of the army, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐξ ἐσχάτων ἐς ἔσχατα ἀπικέσθαι from end to end, Refs 5th c.BC+:—in various senses, uppermost, ἐ. πυρά Refs 5th c.BC+; lowest, deepest, ἀΐδας Refs 3rd c.BC+; innermost, σάρκες Refs 5th c.BC+; last, hindmost, ἤλαυνε δ᾽ ἔ. Refs; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳ at the close of a document, Refs 2nd c.BC+
I.2 of Degree, uttermost, highest, τὸ ἔ. κορυφοῦται βασιλεῦσι Refs 5th c.BC+; of misfortunes, sufferings, etc., utmost, last, worst, πόνος, ἀδικία, κίνδυνοι, Refs 5th c.BC+; δῆμος ἔ. extreme democracy, Refs 4th c.BC+
I.2.b substantive, τὸ ἔ., τὰ ἔ., the utmost, ἐς τὸ ἔ. κακοῦ ἀπιγμένοι Refs 5th c.BC+; ζημιοῦσθαι πᾶσι τοῖς ἐ., Latin extremis suppliciis, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔσχατ᾽ ἐσχάτων κακά worst of possible evils, Refs 5th c.BC+: comparative οὔτε γὰρ τοῦ ἐσχάτου -ώτερον εἴη ἄν τι Refs 4th c.BC+ falsa lectio in Refs 5th c.BC+
I.3 of Persons, lowest, meanest, Refs 1st c.BC+ i.e. the meanest of mankind,Refs 5th c.BC+ it seems to mean the remotest of mankind, compare πρὸς ἐσχάτην Μυσῶν variant in Refs 1st c.AD+
I.4 of Time, last, ἐς τὸ ἔ. to the end, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. πλόος, ναυτιλίαι, the end of it, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐσχάτας ὑπὲρ ῥίζας over the last scion of the race, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. Ἑλλήνων, Ῥωμαίων, Refs 1st c.AD+ as adverb, for the last time, Refs 5th c.BC+; finally, best of all, NT; at the latest, ἔ. ἐν τρισὶ μησίν Refs 4th c.BC+; εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην at the last, LXX; ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτῳLXX substantive ἐσχάτη, ἡ, end, οὐχ ἕξεις ἐ. καλήν Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.5 in the Logic of Refs 4th c.BC+ are the last or lowest species, Refsindividuals, Refs
I.5.b ὁ ἔ. ὅρος the minor term of a syllogism, Refs
I.5.c last step in geometrical analysis or ultimate condition of action, τὸ ἔ. ἀρχὴ τῆς πράξεως Refs
II adverb -τως to the uttermost, exceedingly, πῦρ ἐ. καίει Refs 5th c.BC+
II.b -τως διακεῖσθαι to be at the last extremity, NT+2nd c.BC+
II.2 so ἐς τὸ ἔ.,=ἐσχάτως, Refs 5th c.BC+finally, in the end, Refs 5th c.BC+; but, τὸ ἔ. what is worst of all, Refs
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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
eschatōs1×
Mark 5:23“at the point of death”… polleim legarōntos hoti Tem thugatriem mu eschatōs echatō, hina ercharantos epitithaseia tain cheirain …… Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will …