ὄπισθε
behind, after
Where this word appears
Every passage where ὄπισθε appears in the Greek Septuagint — 24 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:10 ὄπισθε And he said, I will return and come to you according to this period seasonably, and Sarrha your wife shall have a son; and Sarrha heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.
- Exodus 14:19 ὄπισθε And the angel of God that went before the camp of the children of Israel removed and went behind, and the pillar of the cloud also removed from before them and stood behind them.
- Joshua 6:13 ὄπισθε And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
- Ruth 1:16 ὄπισθε And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave you, or to return from following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
- Ruth 2:7 ὄπισθε And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not even a little in the field.
- 1 Samuel 6:7 ὄπισθε And now take wood and make a new wagon, and take two cows, that have calved for the first time, without their calves; and do you⌃ yoke the cows to the wagon, and lead away the calves from behind them home.
- 1 Samuel 12:20 ὄπισθε And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you⌃ have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.
- 1 Samuel 14:46 ὄπισθε And Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines departed to their place.
- 1 Samuel 15:11 ὄπισθε I have repented that I have made Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not kept my word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.
- 1 Samuel 24:2 ὄπισθε And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David is in the wilderness of Engaddi.
- 2 Samuel 2:21 ὄπισθε And Abenner said to him, Turn you to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold for yourself on one of the young men, and take to yourself his armor: but Asel would not turn back from following him.
- 2 Samuel 2:26 ὄπισθε And Abenner called Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? know you not that it will be bitter at last? How long then will you refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren?
- 2 Samuel 2:30 ὄπισθε And Joab returned from following Abenner, and he assembled all the people, and there were missing of the people of David, nineteen men, and Asael.
- 2 Samuel 10:9 ὄπισθε And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out some of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria.
- 2 Samuel 11:15 ὄπισθε And he wrote in the letter, saying, Station Urias in front of the severe part of the fight, and retreat from behind him, so shall he be wounded and die.
- 2 Samuel 13:34 ὄπισθε And Abessalom escaped: and the young man the watchman, lifted up his eyes, and looked; and, behold, much people went in the way behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent: and the watchman came and told the king, and said, I have seen men by the way of Oronen, by the side of the mountain.
- 2 Samuel 20:2 ὄπισθε And all the men of Israel went up from following David after Sabee the son of Bochori: but the men of Juda adhered to their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 16:3 ὄπισθε Behold, I raise up enemies after Baasa, and after his house; and I will make your house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat.
- 2 Kings 10:29 ὄπισθε Nevertheless Ju departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who led Israel to sin: these were the golden heifers in Baethel and in Dan.
- 2 Kings 18:6 ὄπισθε And he clave to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 13:13 ὄπισθε Now Jeroboam had caused an ambush to come round upon him from behind: and he himself was before Juda, and the ambush behind.
- 2 Chronicles 13:13 ὄπισθε Now Jeroboam had caused an ambush to come round upon him from behind: and he himself was before Juda, and the ambush behind.
- 2 Chronicles 13:14 ὄπισθε And Juda looked back, and, behold, the battle was against them before and behind: and they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 34:33 ὄπισθε And Josias removed all the abominations out of the whole land which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Jerusalem and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God all his days: he departed not from following the Lord God of his fathers.
About this word
About this word
ὄπισθε (ópisthe), “behind, after,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 24 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →