Then
Then
a demonstrative adverb of time, denoting “at that time,” is used (a) of concurrent events, e.g., Mat 2:17; Gal 4:8, “at that time;” Gal 4:29, “then;” 2Pe 3:6, “(the world) that then was,” lit., “(the) then (world);” (b) of consequent events, “then, thereupon,” e.g., Mat 2:7; Luk 11:26; Luk 16:16, “[from (AV, “since”)] that time;” Joh 11:14; Act 17:14; (c) of things future, e.g., Mat 7:23; Mat 24:30 (twice), Mat 24:40; eight times in ch. 25; 1Co 4:5; Gal 6:4; 1Th 5:3; 2Th 2:8. It occurs 90 times in Matthew, more than in all the rest of the NT together.
denotes sequence (a) “of time, then, next,” Mar 4:17, RV, “then;” Mar 4:28, in some texts; Mar 8:25, RV, “then” (AV, “after that”); Luk 8:12; Joh 13:5; Joh 19:27; Joh 20:27; in some texts in 1Co 12:28; 1Co 15:5, 1Co 15:7, 1Co 15:24; 1Ti 2:13; 1Ti 3:10; Jam 1:15; (b) In argument, Heb 12:9, “furthermore.”
“thereupon, thereafter,” then (in some texts, Mar 7:5; kai, “and,” in the best); Luk 16:7; Joh 11:7; 1Co 12:28, RV, “then” (AV, “after that”); 1Co 15:6-7 (ditto); 1Co 15:23, RV, AV, “afterward” (No. 2 in 1Co 15:24); 1Co 15:46 (ditto); Gal 1:18; Gal 1:21, RV (AV, “afterwards”); Gal 2:1; 1Th 4:17; Heb 7:2, RV (AV, “after that”); Heb 7:27, Jam 3:17; Jam 4:14. See AFTER.
“finally, for the rest,” the neuter of loipos, “(the) rest,” used adverbially, is rendered “then” in Act 27:20, AV (RV, “now.”).
a particle expressing sequence or consequence, is rendered “then,” e.g., Mat 22:43; Mat 27:22; Luk 11:13.
an adverb formed from ouk, “not,” oun, “therefore,” with the negative element dropped, meaning “so then,” is used in Joh 18:37.
Notes: (1) In Jam 2:24, where in some texts the inferential particle toinun, “therefore,” occurs, the AV renders it by “then” (RV follows the superior mss. which omit it). (2) For conjunctions (ara, “so;” de, “but;” gar “for;” kai, “and;” te, “and”), sometimes translated “then,” see +, p. 9.