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Strong's G3796 · Greek

ὀψέ

opse · op-seh'

from the same as 3694 (through the idea of backwardness); (adverbially) late in the day; by extension, after the close of the day


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ὀψέ (G3796)

3 ὀψέ , adv. of time, [in LXX: Ge 24:11 , Ex 30:8 ( עֶרֶב , הָעַרְבַּיִם בֵּין ), Je 2:23 ; τὸ ὀ. , Is 5:11 ( נֶשֶׁף )*;] long after , late . late in the day , at evening (opp. to πρωί ); in late writers used almost as an indecl. noun (v. MM, xviii): Mk 11:11 , 19 13:35 . C. gen., late in or on ; and, in late writers also after (M, Pr. , 72 f.), a sense which seems to be required in Mt 28:1 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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