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ἕως

until

G2193 Strong's Greek
héōs Transliteration
/heh'-oce/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 145 appearances

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About this entry

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εως — transliterated héōs — is a Greek conjunction carrying the sense “until.” Debuting at Matthew 1:17, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 136 verses in 15 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (31% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
even
Modern gloss
until
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2193 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 →

136
distinct verses
The word appears in 136 distinct verses.
15 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:17.
Revelation 6:11
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 6:11.
#112
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 112 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 136 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 94 · 69%
  • Acts 21 · 15%
  • Pauline Epistles 13 · 10%
  • General Epistles 6 · 4%
  • Revelation 2 · 1%

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 136 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 94 verses · 69%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 48 verses · 35%
  • Johannine 14 verses · 10%
  • Pauline corpus 13 verses · 10%
  • Hebrews 3 verses · 2%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 2%
  • Revelation 2 verses · 1%

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: Till 38×, Until 32×, Unto 30×
  • American Standard Version: Until 36×, Unto 31×, Till 29×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Until 65×, To 32×, While 7×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Until 88×, To 21×, Far as 14×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2193 across 142 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Till” 38×
  • “Until” 32×
  • “Unto” 30×
  • “To” 16×
  • “While” 7×
  • “How long” 5×
  • “Far as” 3×
  • “Even” 2×
  • “Hitherto” 2×
  • “How” 2×

Plus 5 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 6 further occurrences.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2193 across 131 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Until” 36×
  • “Unto” 31×
  • “Till” 29×
  • “To” 7×
  • “While” 6×
  • “Far as” 4×
  • “How” 4×
  • “Even” 2×

Plus 12 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 G2193 across 133 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Until” 65×
  • “To” 32×
  • “While” 7×
  • “How long” 6×
  • “Before” 4×
  • “Up to” 3×
  • “Far as” 2×

Plus 14 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 12 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2193 across 145 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Until” 88×
  • “To” 21×
  • “Far as” 14×
  • “While” 7×
  • “Up to” 6×
  • “Before” 3×
  • “Even” 2×

Plus 4 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.

  1. till, until

Word origin

Origin: of uncertain affinity

Part of speech: Conjunction

Of uncertain affinity; a conjugation preposition and adverb of continuance until (of time and place): - even (until unto) (as) far (as) how long (un-) til (-l) (hither- un- up) to while (-s).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εως appears 1,235 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1,090 verses in 36 books.

1,235
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
1,090
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
36 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 36 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2193) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 1,090. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2193) 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.

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