Lexical Summary akmēn: at the present point of time Original Word: ἀκμήνTransliteration: akmēn Phonetic Spelling: (ak-mane') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: at the present point of time Meaning: at the present point of time Strong's Concordance yet. Accusative case of a noun ("acme") akin to ake (a point) and meaning the same; adverbially, just now, i.e. Still -- yet. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 188: ἀκμήἀκμή, (ῆς, ἡ (cf. ἀκή (on the accent cf. Chandler § 116; but the word is 'a mere figment of the grammarians,' Pape (yet cf. Liddell and Scott) under the word), αἰχμή, Latinacies, acuo) among the Greeks a. properly, a point, to prick with (cf. (the classic) αἰχμή), b. extremity, climax, acme, highest degree, c. the present point of time. Hence, accusative (Winers Grammar, 230 (216), 464 (432f); Buttmann, 153 (134)) ἀκμήν with adverbial force, equivalent to ἐπί, even now, even yet: Matthew 15:16. (Theocritus, id. 4, 60; Polybius 4, 36, 8; Strat. epigr. 3, p. 101, Lipsius edition; Strabo 1. i. (c. 3 prol.), p. 56; Plutarch, de glor. Athen. 2, 85, others) Cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 123. |
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