2001 Translation

ESPERAS, esperas

Sounds Like: ess-PEH-ras

Translations: (of) evening, (of) west, (of) the west

From the root: ΕΣΠΕΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is a noun referring to the evening, the time of day when the sun sets. It can also refer to the direction of the west, as that is where the sun sets. It is often used in phrases indicating a duration, such as 'until evening' or 'from morning until evening'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1659 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:202

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 39:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 22:6
• Numbers — 19:7, 19:8, 19:10, 19:19, 19:21, 19:22
• 1 Chronicles — 16:40
• Judith — 9:1
• 1 Maccabees — 9:13
• 4 Maccabees — 3:8
• Psalms — 29:6, 54:18, 64:9, 89:6, 103:23
• Job — 4:20, 7:4
• Sirach — 18:26
• Acts of the Apostles — 28:23

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:210

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 10:240
• Book 6 — 14:364
• Book 13 — 7:95
• Book 14 — 13:352

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 16:20
• Book Seven — 1:1, 6:6, 8:38, 8:42

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 97:1, 111:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 19:1, 30:16, 49:27
• Exodus — 12:18, 16:6, 16:8, 27:21
• Leviticus — 11:24, 11:25, 11:26, 11:27, 11:28, 11:31, 11:32, 11:39, 11:40, 14:46, 14:47, 15:5, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:9, 15:10, 15:11, 15:16, 15:17, 15:18, 15:19, 15:21, 15:22, 15:23, 15:27, 17:15, 22:6, 23:32, 24:3
• Numbers — 9:15, 9:21, 19:7, 19:8, 19:10, 19:19, 19:21, 19:22
• Deuteronomy — 16:4, 16:6, 28:67
• Joshua — 5:10, 7:6, 8:29, 10:26
• Judges — 20:23, 20:26, 21:2
• Ruth — 2:7, 2:17
• 1 Samuel — 14:24
• 2 Samuel — 11:13
• 1 Kings — 22:35
• 1 Chronicles — 16:40, 23:30
• 2 Chronicles — 18:34
• Ezra (Beta) — 4:20
• Judith — 9:1
• Tobit — 6:2
• 1 Maccabees — 9:13
• 4 Maccabees — 3:8
• Psalms — 29:6, 54:18, 64:9, 89:6, 103:23
• Job — 4:20, 7:4
• Sirach — 18:26
• Isaiah — 21:13
• Ezekiel — 12:4, 12:7, 24:18, 33:22, 46:3
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 8:14, 8:26
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 8:14, 8:26

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 28:23

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΣΠΕΡΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΕΣΠΕΡΑ — evening, a evening, eventide, a eventide, (of) evening, (of) eventide
• ΕΣΠΕΡΑΝ — evening, an evening, eventide
• ΕΣΠΕΡΙΟΝ — western, of the west, evening, of the evening
• ΕΣΠΙΡΑΣ — evening, a evening, eventide

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