Lexical Summary opsios: evening Original Word: ὄψιοςTransliteration: opsios Phonetic Spelling: (op'-see-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: evening Meaning: evening Strong's Concordance eveningFrom opse; late; feminine (as noun) afternoon (early eve) or nightfall (later eve) -- even(-ing, (-tide)). see GREEK opse Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3798: ὄψιοςὄψιος, ὀψία, ὀψιον (ὀψέ), late; 1. as an adjective ((Pindar) Thucydides, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, others; (Lob. ad Phryn., p. 51f)): ἡ ὥρα, Mark 11:11 (but T Tr marginal reading WH text ὀψέ, which see) (ὀψία ἐν νυκτί, Pindar Isthm. 4, 59). 2. contrary to the usage of secular authors ἡ ὀψία as a substantive (namely, ὥρα (cf. Winers Grammar, 591f (550); Buttmann, 82 (71))), evening: i. e. either from our three to six o'clock p. m., Matthew 8:16; Matthew 14:15; Matthew 27:57; Mark 4:35; or from our six o'clock p. m. to the beginning of night, Matthew 14:23; Matthew 16:2 there T brackets WH reject the passage); |
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