Strong G243ἄλλος

another

Transliteration
allos
Pronunciation
al'-los
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

A primary word;
else that is different (in many applications): - more one (another) (an- some an-) other (-s -wise).

Detailed definition

ἄλλος, -η, -ο, (cf. Lat. alius, Eng. else),
[in LXX for אַחֵר,אֶחָד, etc.;]
other, another: absol., Mat.20:3, al.; ἄ. δέ, 1Co.3:10 12:8; pl., Mrk.6:15; attached to a noun, Mat.2:12 4:21, al.; with art., ὁ ἄ., the other, Mat.5:39, Jhn.19:32 (Bl., §47, 8); οἱ ἄ., the others, the rest, Jhn.20:25, 1Co.14:29; ἄ. πρὸς ἄλλον = πρὸς ἀλλήλους (BL, §48, 10), Act.2:12; ἄλλ᾽ (i.e. ἄλλο) ἤ (Bl., §77, 13), Luk.12:51; before πλήν, Mrk.12:32; εἰ μή, Jhn.6:22; παρά with accusative, 1Co.3:11.
SYN.: ἕτερος, which see ἄ. denotes numerical, ἕ. qualitative difference (Cremer, 89). ἄ. generally "denotes simply distinction of individuals, ἕ. involves the secondary idea of difference in kind" (see Lft., Meyer, Ramsay, on Gal.1:6, 7; Tr., Syn., §xcv; BL, §51, 6; M, Pr., 79f., 246; MM, VGT, s.vv.). As to whether the distinction can be maintained in 1Co.12:8, 10 see ICC, in l., and on Heb.11:35f., see Westc, in l. (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G243 appears in 141 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • another50
  • other45
  • others29
  • some11
  • one4
  • man3
  • thing3
  • to3
  • for2
  • more1
  • otherwise1
  • woman1

First verses

  1. Matthew 2:12
    And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
  2. Matthew 4:21
    And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
  3. Matthew 5:39
    But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  4. Matthew 8:9
    For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
  5. Matthew 10:23
    But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
  6. Matthew 12:13
    Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
  7. Matthew 13:5
    Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
  8. Matthew 13:7
    And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
  9. Matthew 13:8
    But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
  10. Matthew 13:24
    Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
  11. Matthew 13:31
    Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
  12. Matthew 13:33
    Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
  13. Matthew 16:14
    And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
  14. Matthew 19:9
    And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
  15. Matthew 20:3
    And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
  16. Matthew 20:6
    And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
  17. Matthew 21:8
    And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
  18. Matthew 21:33
    Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
  19. Matthew 21:36
    Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
  20. Matthew 21:41
    They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἄλλος, η, ο,
[Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Cypria αἶλος “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135 H. (from Idalion): (from ἀλ)] yος, cf. Latin alius):—another, i. e. one besides what has been mentioned, either adjective or pronoun: when adjective, its substantive is either in the same case, or in genitive, Ζεῦ ἄλλοι τε θεοί[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.476; θεῶν ἄ. 16.446:)] —ἄ. μέν.. ἄ. δέ.. one.. another.., more rarely the one.. the other.. (of two persons, etc.), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.493, etc.)]; τὰ μέν.. ἄλλα δέ.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.147)], and Attic dialect; ἕτερον μέν.. ἄλλον δέ.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.313)]; ἄλλο μέν.. ἑτέρου δέ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32; θάτερον.. τὸ δ᾽ ἄλλο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 962.)]
II with τις, any other, οὐδέ τις ἄ. ἔγνω ἀλλ᾽ ἄρα Κασσάνδρη[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.697; ἄ. τις 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85)]; οὐδεὶς ἄ. no other, [Refs ([prev. passage])]; ἄλλα πολλά[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.639; πολλὰ καὶ ἄλλα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.56; for εἴ τις ἄλλος [prev. author] 6.32, etc., and εἴ τις καὶ ἄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.15, etc., see at {εἰ}.)]
II.2 frequently with another of its own cases or derived Adverbs, ἄ. ἄλλα λέγει one man says one thing, one another, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.15; ἄ. ἄλλω᾽ ἔλεγεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 220c; ἄ. ἄλλῃ ἐτράπετο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.19)]; see at {ἄλλοθεν, ἄλλοσε, ἄλλοτε}; also with Verb in plural, παραλαμβάνων ἄ. ἄλλον ἐπ᾽ ἄλλου, τὸν δ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλου χρείᾳ.. ἐθέμεθα πόλιν ὄνομα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 369c, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.4, etc.: _plural_, ἄλλοι)] when the several parties are plural, λείπουσι τὸν λόφον.. ἄλλοι ἄλλοθεν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.10.13.)]
II.3 ἄ. καὶ ἄ., one and then another, one or two, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.12)]; ἄλλο καὶ ἄλλο one thing after another, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 4.1.15)]; πρὸς ἄλλὡ καὶ ἄλλὡ σημείὡ to different points, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1.7.)]
II.4 repeated for emphasis, ἄ. ἄ. τρόπος quite another sort, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 132.)]
II.5 οὐδ᾽ ἄ. for οὐδέτερος, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.45.)]
II.6 with Article, ὁ ἄλλος, the rest, all besides; in plural, οἱ ἄλλοι (Ionic dialect contraction ὧλλοι) all the others, the rest, frequently from [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus downwards (ἄλλοι in same signification, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.1))]; τὰ ἄλλα, contraction τἆλλα, all else, τἆλλα πλὴν ὁ χρυσός[Refs (“Scol.” 1 (Pytherm.))]; in Attic dialect frequently as adverb, for the rest, especially in amendments to decrees, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα καθάπερ ὁ δεῖνα κτλ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 1.27a70, etc.: of Time, ={τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον}, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.2)]; ὁ ἄ. χρόνος, ={ὁ λοιπὸς χρόνος}, of the future, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.4)] (but also of the past, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.16))]; τῇ ἄλλῃ ἡμέρᾳ, τῷ ἄλλῳ ἔτει, next day, next year, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.1.13, 1.2.1)]; οἵτε ἄλλοι καί.. all others and especially.., γυναῖκας ἄλλας τε πολλὰς καὶ δὴκαὶ βασιλέος θυγατέρα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1, etc.)]; ἄλλα τε δὴ εἶπε, καί.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142c; (see. ἄλλως 1):)] —τὸ ἄλλο is much less frequently than τὰ ἄλλα.
II.7 with Numerals, yet, still, further, τρίτον ἄ. γένος[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 143)]; πέμπτος ποταμὸς ἄ. yet a fifth river, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.54, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 486, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1295, etc.)]
II.8 in enumerations, as well, besides, ἅμα τῇγε καὶ ἀμφίπολοι κίον ἄλλαι with her their mistress came attendants also, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.84; μήτηρ ἠδὲ πατὴρ ἠδ᾽ ἄλλοι πάντες ἑταῖροι 9.367)]; οὐ γὰρ ἦν χόρτος οὐδὲ ἄ. δένδρον οὐδέν there was no grass nor any tree at all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.5; πολιτῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ξένων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 473d)]; προσοφλὼν οὐ τὴν ἐπωβελίαν μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄλλην ὕβριν besides, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.163:—pleonastic, παρ᾽ ἀγγέλων ἄλλων ἀκούειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 7, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.2; ἰδὼν ἐς πλησίον ἄλλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.81; γυναικῶν τῶν ἄλλων μία 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 945; μόνη τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιστημῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 166e)]; with comparative, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, οὔτις σεῖο νεώτερος ἄ. Ἀχαιῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.569, compare 22.106, +others)]; with superlative, ὀϊζυρώτατος ἄλλων[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.105.)]
III less frequently, ={ἀλλοῖος}, of other sort, different, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.64, 21.22; ἄ. γέγονεν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241a.)]
III.2 in this sense, with genitive, ἄλλα τῶν δικαίων other than just, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.25:)] —followed by ἤ.., with preceding _negative_, οὐδὲ ἄλλο.., οὐδὲν ἄλλο (or ἄλλο οὐδέν).., ἤ.. nothing else than.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.49, 7.168, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.14; οὐδὲν ἄλλο γ᾽ ἤπτήξας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 209)]; ἃ μηδὲν ἄλλο ἢ διανεῖταί τις which one only thinks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 195e:—more frequently in questions, τίς ἄλλος ἢ 'γώ..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 440)]; τί δ᾽ ἄλλογ᾽ ἢπόνοι..; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 852: elliptically, τί ἄλλο (i.e. πάσχω) ἢ ἱπποκένταυρος γίγνομα; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.20)]; τί ἄλλο (i.e. ἐποίησαν) ἢ ἐπεβούλευσα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39:—followed by πλήν, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 125, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 39)]; by Preps., πρό..[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85)]; ἀντί.. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 467)]; παρά.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 80b, etc.: with _negative_, sometimes followed by ἀλλά, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.403, 21.275:)] —see also ἄλλο τι.
III.3 other than what is, untrue, unreal, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.348.)]
III.4 other than right, wrong, bad, ἄλλου τινος ἡττῆσθαι yield to some unworthy motive, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.218, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.187d, etc.)]; compare ἄλλως.