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Strong G303ἀνά

each

Transliteration
ana
Pronunciation
an-ah'
Morphology
Greek Preposition

Definition

A primary preposition and adverb; properly up; but (by extension) used (distributively) severally or (locally) at (etc.): - and apiece by each every (man) in through. In compounds (as a prefix) it often means (by implication) repetition intensity 6
reversal etc.

Detailed definition

ἀνά
prep. (the rarest in NT; M, Pr., 98; MM, VGT, see word), prop.,
upwards, up, always with accusative

1. In phrases: ἀ. μέσον, among, between, with genitive, Mat.13:1-58 25:1-46, Mrk.7:31, 1Co.6:5 (M, Pr., 99), Rev.7:17 [so in LXX for בְּתוׄך׃]; ἀ. μέρος, in turn, 1Co.14:27 (both found in Polyb.; cf. MGr. ἀνάμεσα).

2. Distrib., apiece, by: Mat.20:9-10, Luk.9:3 (WH om.), Luk.9:14 Luk.10:1, Jhn.2:6, Rev.4:8.

3. Adverbially ("a vulgarism," B1., § 51, 5; cf. Deiss., BS, 139 f.), ἀ. εἷς ἕκαστος, Rev.21:21.
As prefix, ἀ. signifies
__(a) up: ἀναβαίνειν;
__(b) to: ἀναγγέλλειν;
__(with) anew: ἀναγεννᾶν;
__(d) back: ἀνακάμπτειν.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G303 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • by3
  • apiece2
  • man2
  • and1
  • each1
  • in1
  • several1
  • through1

First verses

  1. Matthew 13:25
    But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
  2. Matthew 20:9
    And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
  3. Matthew 20:10
    But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
  4. Mark 6:40
    And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
  5. Mark 7:31
    And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
  6. Luke 9:3
    And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
  7. Luke 9:14
    For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
  8. Luke 10:1
    After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
  9. John 2:6
    And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
  10. 1 Corinthians 6:5
    I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
  11. 1 Corinthians 14:27
    If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
  12. Revelation 4:8
    And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
  13. Revelation 7:17
    For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
  14. Revelation 21:21
    And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
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ἀνά [ᾰνᾰ],
Aeolic dialect, Thess., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 5th c.AD: Cypria)] ὀν, preposition governing genitive, dative, and accusative By apocope ἀνά becomes ἄν before dentals, as ἂν τὸν ὀδελό; ἄγ before gutturals, as ἂγ γύαλ; ἄμ before labials, as ἂμ βωμοῖσι, ἂμ πέτραις, etc.; ἀμπεπλεγμένας[Refs 4th c.AD+ (“IG” 5(2).514.10 (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus).)]
A WITH GEN., three times in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, in phrase ἀνὰ νηὸς βαίνειν)] go on board ship, [Refs (2.416, 9.177, 15.284)]; ἂν τοῦ τοίχου, τᾶς ὁδοῦ, τοῦ ῥοειδίου, [Refs (“IG” 14.352i40, ii 15,83 (from Halaesa).)]
B WITH DAT., on, upon, without any notion of motion, Epic dialect, Lyric poetry, and Trag. (only Lyric poetry), ἀνὰ σκήπτρῳ upon the sceptre, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.15, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.6; ἂμ βωμοῖσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.441; ἀνὰ σκολόπεσσι 18.177; ἀνὰ Γαργάρῳ ἄκρῳ 15.152)]; ἀνὰ ὤμῳ upon the shoulder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.128)]; ἀν ἵπποις, i. e. in a chariot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.41; ἂμ πέτραις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 351 (Lyric poetry); ἀνά τε ναυσὶν καὶ σὺν ὅπλοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 754; ἂγ Κόσσῳ “GDI” 1365 (from Epirus).)]
C WITH ACCU[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)], the common usage, implying motion upwards:
C.I of Place, up, from bottom to top, up along, κίον᾽ ἀν᾽ ὑψηλὴν ἐρύσαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.176)]; ἀνὰ μέλαθρον up to,[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 239; [φλὲψ] ἀνὰ νῶτα θέουσα διαμπερὲς αὐχέν᾽ ἱκάνει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.547; ἀνὰ τὸν ποταμόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.96)]; ἂν ῥόον up-stream, [Refs (“GDI” 5016.11 (from Gortyn))]; κρῆς ἂν τὸν ὀδελὸν ἐμπεπαρμένον[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 796 (from Megarian))]; simply, along, ἂν τὼς ὄρως[Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 2.32.)]
C.I.2 up and down, throughout, ἀνὰ δῶμα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.570)]; ἀνὰ στρατόν, ἄστυ, ὅμιλον,[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 384, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.173, etc.; ἂγ γύαλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 550 (Lyric poetry))]; ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν Μηδικήν, ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.96, 2.135, etc.; ὀν τὸ μέσσον 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18.3)]; ἀνὰ τὸ σκοτεινόν in the darkness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.22.)]
C.I.3 metaphorically, ἀνὰ θυμὸν φρονέειν, ἀνὰ στόμα ἔχειν, to have continually in the mind, in the mouth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.36, 250)]; ἀν᾽ Αἰγυπτίους ἄνδρας among them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.286)]; ἀνὰ πρώτους εἶναι to be among the first, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.86.)]
C.II of Time, throughout, ἀνὰ νύκτα all night through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.80; ἀνὰ τὰς προτέρας ἡμέρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.223; ἀνὰ τὸν πόλεμον 8.123)]; ἀνὰ χρόνον in course of time, [Refs (1.173, 2.151, 5.27)]; ἀνὰ μέσσαν ἀκτῖνα (i. e. in the south) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1247.)]
C.II.2 distributively, ἀνὰ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν day by day, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.37, 130, etc.; ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτος 1.136, etc.; ἀνὰ πάντα ἔτεα 8.65: also ἀνὰ πρεσβύτᾱτα)] in order of age, [Refs (“Test.Epict.” 4.28.)]
C.III distributively with Numerals, κρέα εἴκοσιν ἀν᾽ ἡμιωβολιαῖα 20 pieces of meat at half an obol each, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 554; τῶν ἀν᾽ ὀκτὼ τὠβολοῦ that sell 8)] for the obol, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 18)]; ἀνὰ πέντε παρασάγγας τῆς ἡμέρας [they marched] at the rate of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5 parasangs a day, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.4)]; ἔστησαν ἀνὰ ἑκατόν μάλιστα ὥσπερ χοροί they stood in bodies of about [Refs (100 men)]each. [Refs ([prev. work] 5.4.12)]; κλισίας ἀνὰ πεντήκοντα companies at the rate of [Refs (50)]in each, [NT (NT.Luke.9.14)]; ἔλαβον ἀνὰ δηνάριον a denarius apiece, [NT (NT.Matt.20.10)]; in doctor's prescriptions, ἀνὰ ὀβολὼ β[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.63, etc.: also ἀνὰ δύο ἥμισυ ζῳδίων)]amounting to [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2 1/ 2 signs, 4th c.BC: Autolycus Astronomus 1.10)]; multiplied by, [Refs (PPetr. 3p.198.)]
C.IV Phrases: ἀνὰ κράτος up to the full strength, i. e. vigorously, ἀνὰ κράτος φεύγειν, ἀπομάχεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.30, 5.3.12)]; ἀνὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον and ἀνὰ λόγον proportionately, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110d; especially in math. sense, [prev. author] “Ti.” 37a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Posteriora” 85a38, etc.)]; ἀνὰ μέσον in the midst, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 531.19; ἀνὰ μέρος)]by turns, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1287n17.)]
D WITH NOM. of Numerals, etc., distributively, [NT+2nd c.AD+ (NT.Rev.21.21, see reading in 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.11, 12, compare 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 50,54.)]
E WITHOUT CASE as adverb, thereupon, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] and other Poets:— and with the notion of spreading all over a space, throughout, all over, μέλανες δ᾽ ἀνὰ βότρυες ἦσαν all over there were clusters, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.562, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.343:)] —but ἀνά often looks like an adverb in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], where really it is only parted from its Verb by tmesis, ἀνὰ δ᾽ ἔσχετ; ἀνὰ δ᾽ ὦρτο (for ἀνῶρτο δέ); ἀνὰ τεύχε᾽ ἀείρας (for τεύχεα ἀναείρας), etc.
F IN COMPOSITION (joined with other words),
F.1 as in C. 1, up to, upwards, up, opposed to κατά, as ἀνα-βαίνω, -βλέπω, ἀν-αιρέω, -ίστημι: poetry sometimes doubled, ἀν᾽ ὀρσοθύρην ἀναβαίνειν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.132.)]
F.2 hence flows the sense of increase or strengthening, as in ἀνακρίν; though it cannot always be translated, as in Homer's ἀνείρομαι:—in this case opposed to ὑπό.
F.3 from the notion throughout (E), comes that of repetition and improvement, as in ἀνα-βλαστάνω, -βιόω, -γεννάω.
F.4 the notion of back, backwards, in ἀναχωρέω, ἀνανεύω, etc., seems to come from such phrases as ἀνὰ ῥόον up, i. e. against, the stream.
G ἄνα, written with anastrophe as adverb, up! arise! ἀλλ᾽ ἄνα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.331, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.13)]:—in this sense the ultima is never elided;[Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare ἀλλ᾽ ἄνα, εἰ μέμονάς γε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.247; ἀλλ᾽ ἄνα ἐξ ἑδράνων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 194.)]
G.2 apocopation ἄν after ὤρνυτο, ὦρτο, and up stood.. arose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.268, 23.837, etc.)]
G.3 when used as preposition ἀνά never suffers anastrophe.