Word Summary
ēdē: already
Original Word: ἤδηTransliteration: ēdē
Phonetic Spelling: (ay'-day)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: already
Meaning: already
Strong's Concordance
already, even now, by this time.
Apparently from e (or possibly e) and de; even now -- already, (even) now (already), by this time.
see GREEK e
see GREEK e
see GREEK de
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2235: ἤδηἤδη, adverb (from
Homer down; on the derivation see
Vanicek, p. 745; Peile, p. 395), in the N. T. everywhere of time,
now, already (Latin
jam):
Matthew 3:10;
Matthew 5:28;
Matthew 14:15;
Mark 4:37;
Mark 11:11;
Luke 7:6;
Luke 12:49; (
Luke 24:29 T WH Tr text,
L Tr marginal reading brackets);
John 4:35(
),; (that all things were now finished and that nothing further remained for him to do or to suffer); Acts 27:9; Romans 13:11 (that it is already time to wake up and indulge no longer in sleep); 1 Corinthians 4:8, and often; νῦν ... ἤδη, now already (Latinjamnunc): 1 John 4:3; ἤδη πότε, now at last, at length now: with future Romans 1:10; (with aorist Philippians 4:10. Synonym: see ἄρτι, at the end)