Lexicon palai: long ago, of old Original Word: πάλαιPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: palai Phonetic Spelling: (pal'-ahee) Short Definition: of old, long ago Definition: of old, long ago, in times past, former. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionlong ago, of old NASB Translationall this time (1), former (1), long (1), long ago (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3819: πάλαιπάλαι, adverb of time, from Homer down; 1. of old; Hebrews 1:1; (as adjective) former, 2 Peter 1:9. (πάλαι properly designates the past not like πρίν and πρότερον relatively, i. e. with a reference, more or less explicit, to some other time (whether past, present, or future), but simply and absolutely.) 2. long ago: Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13; Jude 1:4; so also of time just past, Mark 15:44 (A. V. any while) (where L Tr text WH text ἤδη); 2 Corinthians 12:19 L T Tr WH (R. V. all this time) (so in Homer, Odyssey 20, 293; Josephus, Antiquities 14, 15, 4).
Strong's long ago Probably another form for palin (through the idea of retrocession); (adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient -- any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past. see GREEK palin |
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