ἤδη
already
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 G2235 appears in the Book of 2 Timothy — 2 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.
2 Timothy
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.
ηδη (ḗdē) is a Greek verb most often rendered “already.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 3:10. Spanning 53 verses in 13 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. John dominates its distribution — 14 of 53 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside η, η and ηπερ. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2235 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 →
- 53
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
- 13 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
- #283
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 283 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 53 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 53 distinct verses.
- Gospels 37 verses · 70%
- Johannine 16 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 21%
- Pauline corpus 11 verses · 21%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 6%
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: Now 34×, Already 16×, Yet 2×
- American Standard Version: Already 24×, Now 23×, Was now 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Already 12×, Now 5×, Is already 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Already 54×, Now 4×, Is already 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2235 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G2235 across 60 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G2235 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 13 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2235 across 61 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.
- now, already
Word origin
Derived from η (ḗ) (G2228).
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2235 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἤδη ḗdē | Adverb | Matthew 3:10 | 57 |
| Ἤδη Ḗdē | Adverb | John 7:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2235, 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
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ηδη appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 7 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:36 ἤδη
- Exodus 6:1 ἤδη
- Numbers 11:23 ἤδη
- Ruth 2:14 ἤδη
- Job 15:21 ἤδη
- Ecclesiastes 1:10 ἤδη
- Zechariah 7:3 ἤδη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2235) 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 27:36 ἤδη He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
- Genesis 43:10 ἤδη for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
- Exodus 6:1 ἤδη Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."
- Numbers 11:23 ἤδη Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
- Numbers 17:12 ἤδη The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
- Numbers 22:29 ἤδη Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
- Ruth 2:14 ἤδη At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
- Job 15:21 ἤδη A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Job 15:22 ἤδη He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.
- Job 20:7 ἤδη Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
- Job 20:22 ἤδη In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him: The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
- Job 23:10 ἤδη But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
- Ecclesiastes 1:10 ἤδη Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16 ἤδη For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 3:15 ἤδη That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.
- Ecclesiastes 4:2 ἤδη Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 ἤδη Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.
- Ecclesiastes 9:6 ἤδη Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 9:7 ἤδη Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
- Zechariah 7:3 ἤδη and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2235) 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.
