Word Summary
epeita: thereafter
Original Word: ἔπειταTransliteration: epeita
Phonetic Spelling: (ep'-i-tah)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: thereafter
Meaning: thereafter
Strong's Concordance
afterward, then.
From epi and eita; thereafter -- after that(-ward), then.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK eita
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1899: ἔπειταἔπειτα, adverb (
ἐπί,
εἶτα),
thereupon, thereafter, then, afterward; used a. of time:
Mark 7:5 R G;
Luke 16:7;
Galatians 1:21;
James 4:14;
μετά τοῦτο is added redundantly in
John 11:7 (cf. Meyer at the passage;
Winers Grammar, § 65, 2; (
Buttmann, 397 (340))); a more definite specification of time is added epexegetically,
μετά ἔτη τρία,
Galatians 1:18;
διά δεκατεσσάρων ἐτῶν,
Galatians 2:1.
b. in enumerations it is used α. of time and order: πρῶτον ... ἔπειτα, 1 Corinthians 15:46; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; πρότερον ... ἔπειτα, Hebrews 7:27; ἀπαρχή ... ἔπειτα, 1 Corinthians 15:23; εἶτα (but T Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading ἔπειτα) ... ἔπειτα, 1 Corinthians 15:5, 6; ἔπειτα ... ἔπειτα, 1 Corinthians 15:7 L marginal reading T Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading β. of order alone: πρῶτον ... ἔπειτα, Hebrews 7:2; τρίτον ... ἔπειτα ... ἔπειτα (R G εἶτα), 1 Corinthians 12:28.