ὀπίσω
opisō
after
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ὀπίσω (opisō) carries the meaning of "after." With 37 occurrences in the Bible, its usage spans a range of contexts, including spatial, temporal, and causal relationships. In some instances, ὀπίσω conveys a sense of following or pursuing, while in others, it marks the completion of a sequence or the aftermath of an event. The spatial usage of ὀπίσω indicates direction or orientation, such as following behind someone or looking in a particular direction. In temporal contexts, ὀπίσω can signify a delay or a subsequent occurrence. The causal usage reveals the consequences or results that follow an action. While specific instances of ὀπίσω carry unique weight in their respective narratives, a broader significance of this word lies in its illustration of temporal and causal dynamics within the biblical narratives. By tracking the use of ὀπίσω, readers can better understand the structure and flow of events, and how actions and decisions yield consequences. Its relatively low frequency compared to other Greek words does not diminish its importance in the biblical text.
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Occurrences in Scripture
37 total occurrences across the text
I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 4:10Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Matthew 4:19He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”
Matthew 10:38He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.
Matthew 16:23But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
Matthew 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 24:18Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
Mark 8:33But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”
Mark 1:7He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
Mark 1:17Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”
Mark 1:20Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
Mark 8:34He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 13:16Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
Luke 4:8Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”
Luke 7:38Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Luke 9:23He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Luke 9:62But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”
Luke 14:27Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
Luke 17:31In that day, he who will be on the housetop and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
Luke 19:14But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’
Luke 21:8He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
John 1:15John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”
John 1:27He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
John 1:30This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
John 6:66At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
John 18:6When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John 20:14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
Acts 5:37After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Philippians 3:13Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
1 Timothy 5:15For already some have turned away after Satan.
2 Peter 2:10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Revelation 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
Revelation 12:15The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
Revelation 13:3One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.