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 — 49 distinct verses across 10 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 1:20 ἄχρι adv Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."
- Luke 4:13 ἄχρι adv When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
- Luke 17:27 ἄχρι adv They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Luke 21:24 ἄχρι adv They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Acts 16 verses
- Acts 1:2 ἄχρι adv until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
- Acts 1:22 ἄχρι adv beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection."
- Acts 2:29 ἄχρι adv "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- Acts 3:21 ἄχρι adv whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Acts 7:18 ἄχρι adv until there arose a different king, who didn't know Joseph.
- Acts 11:5 ἄχρι adv "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.
- Acts 13:6 ἄχρι adv When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,
- Acts 13:11 ἄχρι adv Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately there fell on him a mist and darkness. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- Acts 20:6 ἄχρι adv We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
- Acts 20:11 ἄχρι adv When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
- Acts 22:4 ἄχρι adv I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
- Acts 22:22 ἄχρι adv They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn't fit to live!"
- Acts 23:1 ἄχρι adv Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
- Acts 26:22 ἄχρι adv Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
- Acts 27:33 Ἄχρι adv While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.
- Acts 28:15 ἄχρι adv From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
Romans 4 verses
- Romans 1:13 ἄχρι adv Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
- Romans 5:13 ἄχρι adv For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.
- Romans 8:22 ἄχρι adv For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
- Romans 11:25 ἄχρις adv For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 4:11 ἄχρι adv Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
- 1 Corinthians 11:26 ἄχρι adv For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
- 1 Corinthians 15:25 ἄχρι adv For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 3:14 ἄχρι adv But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
- 2 Corinthians 10:13 ἄχρι adv But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:14 ἄχρι adv For we don't stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn't reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Gospel of Christ,
Galatians 2 verses
- Galatians 3:19 ἄχρις adv What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- Galatians 4:2 ἄχρι adv but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.
Philippians 2 verses
Hebrews 3 verses
- 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,
Revelation 11 verses
- Revelation 2:10 ἄχρι adv Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Revelation 2:25 ἄχρι adv Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.
- Revelation 2:26 ἄχρι adv He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
- Revelation 7:3 ἄχρι adv saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"
- Revelation 12:11 ἄχρι adv They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
- Revelation 14:20 ἄχρι adv The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
- Revelation 15:8 ἄχρι adv The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.
- Revelation 17:17 ἄχρι adv For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
- Revelation 18:5 ἄχρι adv for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
- Revelation 20:3 ἄχρι adv and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
- Revelation 20:5 ἄχρι adv The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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.
