Definition

just now

Etymology

adverb from a derivative of G142 (αἴρω) (compare G740 (ἄρτος)) through the idea of suspension;

Where the KJV renders it

• this day (hour)
• hence(-forth)
• here(-after)
• hither(-to)
• (even) now
• (this) present

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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