ἤδη
ēdē
already
Lexicon Entry
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What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ἤδη (ēdē) translates to "already." With 61 occurrences in the Bible, it is a significant term used across various contexts. Its frequent use suggests it serves as a crucial indicator of timing or completion, highlighting the importance of a moment or action preceding another. ἤδη is often used to emphasize completion or fulfillment, signifying that a process or event has begun or is currently happening, rather than yet to occur. This can be observed in its usage in phrases such as "already, but also (or) still" indicating a progression of time, or in emphasizing an action completed beforehand. The significance of ἤδη to a general audience lies in its role as a temporal marker, which can significantly alter the interpretation of a passage depending on its context. Its use underscores the importance of understanding and correctly timing events within a narrative, making it a vital element in conveying meaning and depth in biblical accounts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
61 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matthew 14:15When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”
Matthew 14:24But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
Matthew 15:32Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
Matthew 17:12but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”
Matthew 24:32“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
Mark 4:37A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.
Mark 6:35When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
Mark 6:35When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.
Mark 8:2“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.
Mark 11:11Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Mark 13:28“Now from the fig tree, learn this parable. When the branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near;
Mark 15:42When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Mark 15:44Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
Luke 3:9Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
Luke 7:6Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
Luke 11:7and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
Luke 12:49“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
Luke 14:17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’
Luke 19:37As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
Luke 21:30When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.
Luke 21:30When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.
Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Luke 24:29They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
John 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
John 4:35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
John 4:51As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
John 5:6When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
John 6:17They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
John 7:14But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
John 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:27He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
John 11:17So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
John 11:39Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
John 15:3You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 19:28After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
John 19:33but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
John 21:4But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 21:14This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
Acts 4:3They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Acts 27:9When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
Acts 27:9When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
Romans 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
Romans 4:19Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
Romans 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 4:8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 4:8You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 5:3For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.