Yesterday
χθέςStrong’s G5504chthes
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chthes is the Greek word usually translated “yesterday”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
Meaning
Usually translated “yesterday”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- yesterday 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 1
- Acts 1
- Hebrews 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
χθές chthes · yesterday
ἐχθές (Rec. χθές), adv., [in LXX for תְּמוֹל, etc. ;] yesterday: Jhn.4:52, Act.7:28, Heb.13:8 (on the form, see Rutherford, NPhr., 370 f.).† ἐχθές, adverb ={χθές}, yesterday, ( 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 175, “Th.” 616, etc.; ἀπ᾽ ἐ. “Anthologia Graeca” 11.35 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus); μέσφα τό γ᾽ ἐ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.144 ); οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀ. today or yesterday, ( 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 456; οὐκ ἐ. οὐδὲ πρῴην 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58 ); ἐ. καὶ τρίτης [ἡμέρας] ( LXX.Ruth.2.11, compare 2nd c.AD: Marcus …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “yesterday” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YESTERDAY, noun
[See Yester.]
- The day last past; the day next before the present.“We are but of yesterday and know nothing” Job 8:9
- yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday yesterday we received letters from our friends.
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.