ἐπαύριον
the next day
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G1887 appears in the Book of John — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 1:29 ἐπαύριον adv The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- John 1:35 ἐπαύριον adv Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
- John 1:44 ἐπαύριον adv Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
- John 6:22 ἐπαύριον adv On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
- John 12:12 ἐπαύριον adv On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb επαυριον centers on the idea of “the next day.” The word gravitates to Acts (59%), then John and Matthew. It appears 17 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 27:62. It clusters with επι, επαγγελλω and επαγω under a shared root. Dig into 17-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1887 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #697
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 697 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 17 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 10 verses · 59%
- Gospels 7 verses · 41%
- Johannine 5 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Morrow 8×, Next day 5×, Day following 2×
- American Standard Version: Morrow 16×
- Berean Standard Bible: Next day 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Next day 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1887 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1887 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1887 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1887 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- on the morrow, the next day
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1887, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- επαγγελλω epangéllō G1861 to announce
- επαγω epágō G1863 to bring upon
- επαγωνιζομαι epagōnízomai G1864 to contend
- επαθροιζω epathroízō G1865 to gather together
- επαινεω epainéō G1867 to approve
- επαινος épainos G1868 approval
- επαιρω epaírō G1869 to lift up
- επαισχυνομαι epaischýnomai G1870 to be ashamed
- επαιτεω epaitéō G1871 to ask repeatedly
- επακουω epakoúō G1873 to give ear to
- επακροαομαι epakroáomai G1874 to listen to
- επαν epán G1875 after
- επαναγκες epánankes G1876 necessarily
- επαναγω epanágō G1877 to lead back
- επαναμιμνησκω epanamimnḗskō G1878 to remind
- επαναπαυομαι epanapaúomai G1879 to rest upon
- επανερχομαι epanérchomai G1880 to return
- επανισταμαι epanístamai G1881 to raise up against
- επανορθωσις epanórthōsis G1882 correction
- επανω epánō G1883 above
- επαρκεω eparkéō G1884 to avail
- επαρχια eparchía G1885 office of governor
- επαυλις épaulis G1886 farm
- επαυτοφωρω epautophṓrōi G1888 caught in the act
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 137 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επαυριον appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 10 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:34 ἐπαύριον
- Exodus 9:6 ἐπαύριον
- Leviticus 23:11 ἐπαύριον
- Numbers 11:32 ἐπαύριον
- Judges 6:38 ἐπαύριον
- 1 Samuel 20:27 ἐπαύριον
- 2 Samuel 11:12 ἐπαύριον
- 2 Kings 8:15 ἐπαύριον
- 1 Chronicles 29:21 ἐπαύριον
- Jonah 4:7 ἐπαύριον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1887) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:34 ἐπαύριον It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
- Exodus 9:6 ἐπαύριον Yahweh did that thing on the next day; and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the cattle of the children of Israel, not one died.
- Exodus 18:13 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
- Exodus 32:6 ἐπαύριον They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- Leviticus 23:11 ἐπαύριον and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
- Leviticus 23:15 ἐπαύριον "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
- Leviticus 23:16 ἐπαύριον even to the next day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
- Numbers 11:32 ἐπαύριον The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 17:6 ἐπαύριον Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.
- Numbers 17:23 ἐπαύριον
- Numbers 33:3 ἐπαύριον They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians,
- Judges 6:38 ἐπαύριον It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
- Judges 9:42 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
- Judges 21:4 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings.
- 1 Samuel 20:27 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
- 1 Samuel 31:8 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- 2 Samuel 11:12 ἐπαύριον David said to Uriah, Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
- 2 Kings 8:15 ἐπαύριον It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 29:21 ἐπαύριον They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
- Jonah 4:7 ἐπαύριον But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1887) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
