adverb
palai
Strong’sG3819
of old, long ago
stem palai-7 times in the New Testamentin 7 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.
πάλαι,
adv. of time,[in LXX: Is 48:5, 7 (מֵאָז), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3819 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpal'-ahee
(adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient
Fromprobably another form for G3825 (through the idea of retrocession);
King Jamesany while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past.
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 long ago, π. οὔ τι νέον γε Refs 8th c.BC+; π. ποτέ once upon a time, Refs 5th c.BC+present of an act lasting to the present, ὁρῶ.. π. I have long seen, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰχνεύω π.Refs 5th c.BC+; but, π. ποτ᾽ ὄντες ye who were long ago, Refs: also with perfect, τέθνηχ᾽ ὑμῖν π. Refs 5th c.BC+imperfect of an act lasting to a past time, ἔχεν π. had long been holding it, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 like an adjective with Article and Noun, οἱ π. φῶτες men of old, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ καινὰ τοῖς π. τεκμαίρεταιRefs 4th c.BC+; οἱ π. the ancients, opposed to οἱ νῦν, Refs 4th c.BC+
II before, opposed to the present, sometimes of time just past, ἠμὲν π. ἠδ᾽ ἔτι καὶ νῦν Refs 8th c.BC+: hence, not long ago, just now, like{ἄρτι}, οἱ π. λόγοι Refs 4th c.BC+; ὁ π. λόγος the reason just given, Refs 5th c.BC+; but opposed to ἄρτι, Refs 5th 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.
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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 11:21… tais dunamiais tais generantais en vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda metanoala.… and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Mark 15:44“already”… proskalerantos ton kenturiōnon eperōtata auton ei palai apothnēskata;… he summoned the centurion to ask …
Luke 10:13… tais dunamiais tais generantais en vi, palai an en sakko kai spoda kathorōntois …… and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Hebrews 1:1“long ago”Polumerōs kai polutropōs palai tos theos lalarantos toi patroi en …… past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the …
2 Peter 1:9“former”… muōpazarōntos, lēthan labarantos tou katharismou taiu palai autou hamartēmeiu.… traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
Jude 1:4pareisduala gar tinois anthrōpois, tois palai prograforēntois eis houtem tem krimem, asebois, …… unnoticed — ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace …
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2 Corinthians 12:19Palai dokavō hoti vi apologonō? katenanti theou …Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense …