αχρι
until
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 G891 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 3 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 3:13 ἄχρις adv but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- Hebrews 4:12 ἄχρι adv For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 6:11 ἄχρι adv We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
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.
αχρι (áchri) is a Greek word most often rendered “until.” It first appears in Matthew 24:38. It turns up in 49 verses across 10 books, a moderately common footprint. It concentrates in Acts, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. From the same root come ακρον, ακριβεστατος and ακρις. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G891 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 →
- 49
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 49 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #316
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 316 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 49 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 16 verses 33%
- Revelation 11 verses 22%
- Luke 4 verses 8%
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 49 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 20 verses · 41%
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 29%
- Johannine 11 verses · 22%
- Revelation 11 verses · 22%
- Gospels 5 verses · 10%
- Hebrews 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: Until 16×, Unto 12×, Till 9×
- American Standard Version: Until 16×, Unto 14×, Far as 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Until 23×, To 8×, Up to 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Until 31×, Far as 5×, Up to 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G891 across 49 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G891 across 42 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G891 across 46 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G891 across 48 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.
- until, unto, etc.
Word origin
Derived from ακρον (ákron) (G206) — end.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G891 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἄχρι áchri | Adverb | Matthew 24:38 | 45 |
| ἄχρις áchris | Adverb | Romans 11:25 | 3 |
| Ἄχρι Áchri | Adverb | Acts 27:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G891, 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
- ακριβεστατος akribéstatos G196 exact
- ακρις akrís G200 locust
- ακροβυστια akrobystía G203 uncircumcised
- ακρογωνιαιος akrogōniaîos G204 cornerstone
- ακροθινιον akrothínion G205 first fruits
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αχρι appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 11:33 ἄχρι
- Job 32:11 ἄχρι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G891) 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.
- Judges 11:33 ἄχρι He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- Job 32:11 ἄχρι "Behold, I waited for your words, And I listened for your reasoning, While you searched out what to say.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G891) 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.
