οὔπω
not yet
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.
Degree
- Negative
- Marks a negative form.
Every verse where G3768 appears in the Book of John — 11 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 2:4 οὔπω adv neg Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
- John 3:24 οὔπω adv neg For John was not yet thrown into prison.
- John 6:17 οὔπω adv neg and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
- John 7:6 οὔπω adv neg Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- John 7:8 οὔπω adv neg You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."
- John 7:30 οὔπω adv neg They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
- John 7:39 οὔπω adv neg But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
- John 8:20 οὔπω adv neg Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
- John 8:57 οὔπω adv neg The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
- John 11:30 οὔπω adv neg Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
- John 20:17 οὔπω adv neg Jesus said to her, "Don't touch me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
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.
ουπω — transliterated oúpō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “not yet.” Where the King James Version says “yet,” newer translations reach for “has not yet” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 25 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in John. First canonically at Matthew 16:9, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3768 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 →
- 25
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 25 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #530
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 530 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 25 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 25 distinct verses.
- Gospels 17 verses · 68%
- Johannine 14 verses · 56%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 12%
- Hebrews 2 verses · 8%
- Revelation 2 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 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: Yet 21×, Not 3×
- American Standard Version: Yet 18×, Is not yet 2×, Not 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Has not yet 5×, Had not yet 4×, Still to come 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Yet 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3768 across 27 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3768 across 23 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3768 across 14 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3768 across 28 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.
- not yet
Word origin
Derived from ου (ou) (G3756) — not.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3768 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| οὔπω oúpō | Adverb, Negative | Matthew 16:9 | 24 |
| Οὔπω Oúpō | Adverb, Negative | Hebrews 12:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3768, 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
- μη mḗ G3361 not
- ου μη ou mḗ G3364 by no means
- ουδε oudé G3761 neither
- ουκετι oukéti G3765 no longer
- ουκουν oukoûn G3766 not therefore
- ουτε oúte G3777 neither
- ουχι ouchí G3780 not at all
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ουπω appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 15:16 οὔπω
- Ecclesiastes 4:3 οὔπω
- Isaiah 7:17 οὔπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3768) 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 15:16 οὔπω In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
- Genesis 18:12 οὔπω Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
- Genesis 29:7 οὔπω 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."
- Ecclesiastes 4:3 οὔπω Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
- Isaiah 7:17 οὔπω Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3768) 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.
