{"id":46673,"date":"2022-09-28T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/even-noun-evening-eventide\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:46:13","slug":"even-noun-evening-eventide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/even-noun-evening-eventide\/","title":{"rendered":"Even (Noun), Evening, Eventide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Even (Noun), Evening, Eventide<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> properly, the feminine of the adjective hesperos, &#8220;of, or at, evening, western&#8221; (Lat., vesper, Eng., &#8220;vespers&#8221;), is used as a noun in <span class='bible'>Luk 24:29<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Act 4:3<\/span>, &#8220;eventide;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 28:23<\/span>. Some mss. have the word in <span class='bible'>Act 20:15<\/span>, &#8220;in the evening (we touched),&#8221; instead of hetera, &#8220;next (day).&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> the feminine of the adjective opsios, &#8220;late,&#8221; used as a noun, denoting &#8220;evening,&#8221; with hora, &#8220;understood&#8221; (see No. 1), is found seven times in Matthew, five in Mark, two in John, and in these places only in the NT (some mss. have it in <span class='bible'>Mar 11:11<\/span>, see B). The word really signifies the &#8220;late evening,&#8221; the latter of the two &#8220;evenings&#8221; as reckoned by the Jews, the first from 3 p.m. to sunset, the latter after sunset; this is the usual meaning. It is used, however, of both, e.g., <span class='bible'>Mar 1:32<\/span> (cp. opsimos, &#8220;latter,&#8221; said of rain, <span class='bible'>Jam 5:7<\/span>). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;long after, late, late in the day, at evening&#8221; (in contrast to proi, &#8220;early,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 20:1<\/span>), is used practically as a noun in <span class='bible'>Mar 11:11<\/span>, lit., &#8220;the hour being at eventide;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Mar 11:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 13:35<\/span>; in <span class='bible'>Mat 28:1<\/span> it is rendered &#8220;late on,&#8221; RV, for AV, &#8220;in the end of.&#8221; Here, however, the meaning seems to be &#8220;after,&#8221; a sense in which the word was used by late Greek writers. See LATE. In the Sept., <span class='bible'>Gen 24:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Exo 30:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 2:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 5:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p> Note: In <span class='bible'>Luk 12:38<\/span> some mss. have the adjective hesperinos, &#8220;of the evening&#8221; (see A, No. 1), lit., &#8220;in the evening watch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even (Noun), Evening, Eventide properly, the feminine of the adjective hesperos, &#8220;of, or at, evening, western&#8221; (Lat., vesper, Eng., &#8220;vespers&#8221;), is used as a noun in Luk 24:29; Act 4:3, &#8220;eventide;&#8221; Act 28:23. Some mss. have the word in Act 20:15, &#8220;in the evening (we touched),&#8221; instead of hetera, &#8220;next (day).&#8221; the feminine of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/even-noun-evening-eventide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even (Noun), Evening, Eventide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}