νῦν
now
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 G3568 appears in the Book of John — 27 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 2:8 νῦν adv He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast." So they took it.
- John 4:18 νῦν adv for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
- John 4:23 νῦν adv But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
- John 5:25 νῦν adv Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
- John 6:42 νῦν adv They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
- John 8:40 νῦν adv But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
- John 8:52 νῦν adv Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
- John 9:21 νῦν adv but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."
- John 9:41 νῦν adv Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
- John 11:8 νῦν adv The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
- John 11:22 νῦν adv Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."
- John 12:27 νῦν adv "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
- John 12:31 νῦν νῦν adv adv Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
- John 13:31 νῦν adv When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- John 13:36 νῦν adv Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."
- John 14:29 νῦν adv Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
- John 15:22 νῦν adv If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- John 15:24 νῦν adv If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
- John 16:5 νῦν adv But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
- John 16:22 νῦν adv Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
- John 16:29 νῦν adv His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
- John 16:30 νῦν adv Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."
- John 17:5 νῦν adv Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
- John 17:7 νῦν adv Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
- John 17:13 νῦν adv But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
- John 18:36 νῦν adv Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."
- John 21:10 νῦν adv Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."
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 νυν centers on the idea of “now.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 24:21. Spanning 138 verses in 24 books, it ranks among the common words of the Greek New Testament. Related forms include νυνι. Dig into 138-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3568 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 →
- 138
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 138 distinct verses.
- 24 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
- #112
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 112 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 138 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 138 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 47 verses · 34%
- Gospels 46 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 37 verses · 27%
- Johannine 32 verses · 23%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 15 verses · 11%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 4%
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 115×, Henceforth 4×, Present 4×
- American Standard Version: Now 111×, Henceforth 6×, Present 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Now 94×, Present 10×, Now on 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Now 151×, Present 9×, Now on 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3568 across 137 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G3568 across 136 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 G3568 across 125 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 9 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3568 across 169 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- at this time, the present, now
Word origin
Origin: a primary particle of present time
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3568 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| νῦν nŷn | Adverb | Matthew 24:21 | 144 |
| Νῦν Nŷn | Adverb | Colossians 1:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3568, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word νυν appears 478 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 461 verses in 31 books.
- 478
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 461
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:23 νῦν
- Exodus 3:9 νῦν
- Numbers 14:3 νῦν
- Deuteronomy 2:13 νῦν
- Joshua 1:2 νῦν
- Judges 6:13 νῦν
- Ruth 3:2 νῦν
- 1 Samuel 1:16 νῦν
- 2 Samuel 2:6 νῦν
- 1 Kings 1:12 νῦν
- 2 Kings 1:14 νῦν
- 1 Chronicles 17:7 νῦν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3568) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 461. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:23 νῦν The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
- Genesis 3:22 νῦν Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:11 νῦν Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 11:6 νῦν Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 12:19 νῦν Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 13:14 νῦν Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
- Genesis 15:16 νῦν In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
- Genesis 18:12 νῦν Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
- Genesis 18:27 νῦν Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
- Genesis 19:9 νῦν They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 20:7 νῦν Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 21:23 νῦν Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
- Genesis 22:12 νῦν He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 24:42 νῦν I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 26:22 νῦν He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 26:29 νῦν that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
- Genesis 27:3 νῦν Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 27:8 νῦν Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
- Genesis 27:36 νῦν 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 27:43 νῦν Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Genesis 29:32 νῦν Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
- Genesis 29:34 νῦν 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 νῦν 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 30:20 νῦν Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:30 νῦν For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 31:13 νῦν I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
- Genesis 31:16 νῦν For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
- Genesis 31:28 νῦν and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
- Genesis 31:29 νῦν It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
- Genesis 31:30 νῦν Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
- Genesis 31:42 νῦν Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 31:44 νῦν Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
- Genesis 32:5 νῦν I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
- Genesis 32:11 νῦν Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
- Genesis 37:20 νῦν Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
- Genesis 41:33 νῦν Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 43:21 νῦν and it happened, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it again in our hand.
- Genesis 44:10 νῦν He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
- Genesis 44:28 νῦν and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
- Genesis 44:30 νῦν Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
- Genesis 44:33 νῦν Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
- Genesis 45:5 νῦν Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- Genesis 45:8 νῦν So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 46:30 νῦν Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
- Genesis 46:34 νῦν that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
- Genesis 47:4 νῦν They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
- Genesis 48:5 νῦν Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
- Genesis 50:5 νῦν 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
- Genesis 50:17 νῦν "So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
- Exodus 3:9 νῦν Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3568) 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.
