ἄρτι
arti
now
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ἄρτι (arti) is defined as "now". This single-word definition encapsulates its primary function of expressing time. Occurring 37 times in the Bible, arti plays a significant role in conveying immediacy, urgency, or a current situation. In terms of usage, arti appears in a variety of contexts, often used to emphasize temporal proximity or to signal a shift in scene or idea. It frequently accompanies verbs or other adverbs to create a sense of contemporaneity. For instance, arti may be used alongside a verb like "to say", signifying the immediate response or speech. This nuanced usage allows the writer to create a sense of dynamic movement, linking past, present, and future. The significance of arti lies in its ability to create a sense of immediacy and to underscore the importance of a particular moment or event. By emphasizing the "now", arti prompts the reader to engage with the present, highlighting the significance of a current action, feeling, or situation. As a temporal marker, arti helps to structure the narrative, creating a sense of urgency and drawing the reader's attention to key events or turning points in the story.
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Occurrences in Scripture
37 total occurrences across the text
But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
Matthew 9:18While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”
Matthew 11:12From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 23:39For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
Matthew 26:29But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Matthew 26:64Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
John 1:51He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
John 2:10and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”
John 5:17But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
John 9:19and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
John 9:25He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
John 13:7Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
John 13:19From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.
John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
John 13:37Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
John 14:7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
John 16:12“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
John 16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
John 16:31Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
1 Corinthians 8:7However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 15:6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 16:7For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
Galatians 1:9As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
Galatians 1:10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 4:20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
1 Thessalonians 3:6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
2 Thessalonians 2:7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
Revelation 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
1 Peter 1:6Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,
1 Peter 1:8whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
1 John 2:9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
Revelation 12:10I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.