Definition

(adverbially) late in the day; by extension, after the close of the day

Etymology

from the same as G3694 (ὀπίσω) (through the idea of backwardness);

Where the KJV renders it

• (at) even
• in the end

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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