ἔτι
still
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 G2089 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 13 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 7:10 ἔτι adv for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
- Hebrews 7:11 ἔτι adv Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
- Hebrews 7:15 ἔτι adv This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,
- Hebrews 8:12 ἔτι adv For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
- Hebrews 9:8 ἔτι adv The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
- Hebrews 10:2 ἔτι adv Or else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
- Hebrews 10:17 ἔτι adv "I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more."
- Hebrews 10:37 ἔτι adv "In a very little while, He who comes will come, and will not wait.
- Hebrews 11:4 ἔτι adv By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
- Hebrews 11:32 ἔτι adv What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
- Hebrews 11:36 ἔτι adv Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- Hebrews 12:26 ἔτι adv whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
- Hebrews 12:27 ἔτι adv This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
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.
“still” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ετι (éti). Older and newer Bibles part ways — “yet” in the King James Version, “still” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 83 verses across 14 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:13. See the sense tree, 83-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2089 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 →
- 83
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 83 distinct verses.
- 14 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 14 of 27 New Testament books.
- #181
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 181 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 83 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 16 verses 19%
- Revelation 14 verses 17%
- Hebrews 13 verses 16%
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 83 distinct verses.
- Gospels 36 verses · 43%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 21 verses · 25%
- Johannine 21 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 15 verses · 18%
- Revelation 14 verses · 17%
- Hebrews 13 verses · 16%
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: Yet 46×, More 15×, All 5×
- American Standard Version: Yet 39×, More 25×, Still 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Still 19×, Again 7×, While 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Still 51×, Anymore 11×, Yet 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2089 across 100 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2089 across 102 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2089 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 15 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2089 across 94 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear 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.
- yet, still
Word origin
Derived from ετος (étos) (G2094) — year.
Perhaps akin to G2094 ; yet still (of time or degree): - after that also ever (any) further (t-) henceforth (more) hereafter (any) longer (any) more (-one) now still yet.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2089 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἔτι éti | Adverb | Matthew 5:13 | 90 |
| Ἔτι Éti | Adverb | Matthew 12:46 | 4 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ετι appears 439 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 408 verses in 35 books.
- 439
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 408
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 35 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 35 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:9 ἔτι
- Exodus 2:3 ἔτι
- Leviticus 13:57 ἔτι
- Numbers 8:25 ἔτι
- Deuteronomy 3:26 ἔτι
- Joshua 1:11 ἔτι
- Judges 2:14 ἔτι
- Ruth 1:11 ἔτι
- 1 Samuel 1:18 ἔτι
- 2 Samuel 2:22 ἔτι
- 1 Kings 1:14 ἔτι
- 2 Kings 1:13 ἔτι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2089) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 408. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:9 ἔτι Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:19 ἔτι Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
- Genesis 7:4 ἔτι In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 8:10 ἔτι He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
- Genesis 8:12 ἔτι He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.
- Genesis 8:21 ἔτι Yahweh smelled the sweet savor. Yahweh said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again strike everything living, as I have done.
- Genesis 9:11 ἔτι I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
- Genesis 9:15 ἔτι and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 17:5 ἔτι Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.
- Genesis 18:29 ἔτι He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."
- Genesis 18:32 ἔτι He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
- Genesis 24:20 ἔτι She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
- Genesis 25:6 ἔτι but to the sons of the concubines who Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. He sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.
- Genesis 29:7 ἔτι He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
- Genesis 29:9 ἔτι While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
- Genesis 29:27 ἔτι Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."
- Genesis 29:34 ἔτι She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 29:35 ἔτι She conceived again, and bare a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
- Genesis 30:7 ἔτι Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 30:12 ἔτι Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, bore Jacob a second son.
- Genesis 30:19 ἔτι Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- Genesis 31:14 ἔτι Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Genesis 32:29 ἔτι Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
- Genesis 35:9 ἔτι God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:10 ἔτι God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
- Genesis 37:8 ἔτι His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
- Genesis 37:30 ἔτι He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"
- Genesis 38:4 ἔτι She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.
- Genesis 38:5 ἔτι She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.
- Genesis 38:26 ἔτι Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
- Genesis 40:13 ἔτι Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 40:19 ἔτι Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Genesis 43:7 ἔτι They said, "The man asked directly concerning ourselves, and concerning our relatives, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?' We just answered his questions. Is there any way we could know that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
- Genesis 43:27 ἔτι He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"
- Genesis 43:28 ἔτι They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
- Genesis 44:14 ἔτι Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
- Genesis 44:23 ἔτι You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
- Genesis 44:28 ἔτι and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
- Genesis 45:1 ἔτι Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" There stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
- Genesis 45:3 ἔτι Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?" His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.
- Genesis 45:6 ἔτι For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
- Genesis 45:11 ἔτι There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
- Genesis 45:28 ἔτι Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
- Genesis 46:30 ἔτι Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
- Genesis 49:27 ἔτι "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
- Exodus 2:3 ἔτι When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
- Exodus 4:18 ἔτι Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
- Exodus 8:25 ἔτι Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land!"
- Exodus 9:2 ἔτι For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
- Exodus 9:17 ἔτι as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2089) 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.
