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Interval

διάστημαStrong’s G1292

diastēma

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Diastēma is the Greek word usually translated “afterward”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.”
Acts 5:7 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “afterward”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • afterward 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Acts 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Greek dictionary

    διάστημα diastēma · interval

    διάστημα, -τος, τό (διίστημι), [in LXX for רֶוַח, etc. ;] an interval, space: of time (Sir, prol. 24), Act.5:7.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “interval” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    IN'TERVAL, noun

    [Latin intervallum; inter and vallum, a wall, or vallus, a stake.

    1. A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as an interval between two columns, between two pickets or palisades, between two houses or walls, or between two mountains or hills.
    2. Space of time between any two points or events; as the interval between the death of Charles I. of England and the accession of Charles II.' the interval between two wars.
    3. The space of time between two paroxysms of disease, pain or delirium; remission; as an interval of ease, of peace, of reason.
    4. The distance between two given sounds in music, or the difference in point of gravity or acuteness.
    All definitions
    1. A tract of low or plain ground between hills, or along the banks of rivers, usually alluvial land enriched by the overflowings of rivers, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. [De.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.