Lexicon ekpalai: long ago, for a long while Original Word: ἔκπαλαιPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: ekpalai Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-pal-ahee) Short Definition: from of old, long since Definition: from of old, long since. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and palaiDefinitionlong ago, for a long while NASB Translationlong ago (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1597: ἔκπαλαιἔκπαλαι, adverb (from ἐκ and πάλαι, formed like ἐκτοτε (cf. Winers Grammar, 24 (23); 422 (393); Buttmann, 321 (275))), from of old; of a long time: 2 Peter 2:3; 2 Peter 3:5. (A later Greek word, from Philo down; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 45ff.)
Strong's of a long time, of old. From ek and palai; long ago, for a long while -- of a long time, of old. see GREEK ek see GREEK palai |
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