There
ἐκεῖσεStrong’s G1566ekeise
Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament
In short
Ekeise is the Greek word usually translated “there”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.
“Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.”
Meaning
Usually translated “there”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- there 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
1 book in all.
Greek dictionary
ἐκεῖσε ekeise · there
ἐκεῖσε adv., [in LXX: Job.39:29 שָׁם * ;] thither: Act.21:3; constr. pregn. (MM, Exp., xii; Field, Notes, 134), τοὺς ἐ. ὄντας, Act.22:5.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “there” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THERE, adverb
- In that place.“The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed” Genesis 2:8
- It is sometimes opposed to here; there denoting the place most distant.
- Here and there in one place and another; as here a little and there a little.
- It is sometimes used by way of exclamation; calling the attention to something distant; as there there; see there; look there
All definitions
- there is used to begin sentences or before a verb; sometimes pertinently, and sometimes without signification; but its use is to firmly established that it cannot be dispensed with.“And there came a voice from heaven, saying, thou art my beloved Son” Mark 1:11
- In composition, there has the sense of a pronoun, as in Saxon; as thereby, which signifies by that.
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.