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1.
(
!
, 4218) signifies “once, at some time,” John 9:13 (cf.
, in v. 8);
Eph. 2:2, 11; Col. 3:7; Titus 3:3; Philem. 11; 1 Pet. 3:5, 20. In all these the
RV
translates it
“aforetime.” The
KJV
varies it with “in time past,” “some time,” “sometimes,” “in the old
time.”
2.
(
$ $
, 4386), the comparative of
, “before, aforetime,” as being
definitely antecedent to something else, is more emphatic than
in this respect. See,
e.g., John 6:62; 7:50; 9:8; 2 Cor. 1:13; Gal. 4:13; 1 Tim. 1:13; Heb. 4:6; 7:27; 10:32; 1
Pet. 1:14. See
BEFORE
,
FIRST
,
FORMER
.¶
For
AFRAID
see
AFFRIGHTED
, A,
FEAR
, A, No. 2, B, No. 3, D,
SORE
For
AFRESH
see
CROSS
,
CRUCIFY
, B
AFTER, AFTERWARD (-S)
The following are adverbs only. For prepositions and conjunctions see
Note
†
p. 1.
1.
(
#
, 1564), “thence,” is once used to signify “afterwards,” in the
sense of “then, from that time,” Acts 13:21. See
THENCE
.
2.
@
(
=
, 1836) denotes “after” with the significance of a succession of events,
an event following next in order after another, Luke 7:11; 9:37; Acts 21:1; 25:17; 27:18.¶
3.
@
(
, 2517), a strengthened form of No. 2, denotes “afterward,” or
“in order” (
, “according to,” and No. 2), Luke 1:3; 8:1; Acts 3:24; 11:4; 18:23.¶
4.
(
!
, 3347), “afterwards,” without necessarily indicating an order
of events, as in Nos. 1 and 2, is found in Heb. 12:17.¶
5.
$
(
> $
, 5305), “afterwards,” with the suggestion of at length, is found
in Matt. 4:2; 21:29, 32, 37 (
KJV
, “last of all”); 22:27; 25:11; 26:60 (
KJV
, “at the last”),
Mark 16:14; Luke 4:2; 20:32 (
KJV
, “last”), John 13:36; Heb. 12:11. See
LAST
.¶
: &
,
and
, “then, afterwards,” or “thereupon,” are translated “afterward”
or “afterwards” in the
KJV
of Mark 4:17 ( ) and Gal. 1:21; 1 Cor. 15:23, 46 (
);
always then in the
RV
. See
THEN
.
AGAIN
1.
(
&
, 1364), the ordinary numeral adverb signifying twice, is rendered “again”
in Phil. 4:16, “ye sent once and again unto my need,” and in 1 Thess. 2:18, where Paul
states that he would have come to the Thessalonians “once and again,” that is, twice at
least he had attempted to do so. See
TWICE
.
2.
(
1
, 3825), the regular word for “again,” is used chiefly in two senses, (a)
with reference to repeated action; (b) rhetorically, in the sense of “moreover” or
“further,” indicating a statement to be added in the course of an argument, e.g., Matt.
5:33; or with the meaning “on the other hand, in turn,” Luke 6:43; 1 Cor. 12:21; 2 Cor.
10:7; 1 John 2:8. In the first chapter of Hebrews, v. 5,
simply introduces an
additional quotation; in v. 6 this is not so. There the
RV
rightly puts the word “again” in
connection with “He bringeth in the firstborn into the world,” “When He again bringeth,
etc.” That is to say,
is here set in contrast to the time when God
7
brought His