Definition

late; feminine (as noun) afternoon (early eve) or nightfall (later eve)

Etymology

from G3796 (ὀψέ);

Where the KJV renders it

• even(-ing
• (-tide))

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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