Strong G507ἄνω
above
- Transliteration
- anō
- Pronunciation
- an'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Adverb from G473; upward or on the top: - above brim high up.
Detailed definition
ἄνω
adv (ἀνά),
__(a) up, upwards: Jhn.11:41, Heb.12:15;
__(b) above (opposite to κάτω): Act_2:19; with art. ἡ, Gal.4:26, Php.3:14; τά, Jhn.8:23, Col.3:1-2; ἕως ἄ. (up to the brim), Jhn.2:7 (Cremer, 106; MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)
adv (ἀνά),
__(a) up, upwards: Jhn.11:41, Heb.12:15;
__(b) above (opposite to κάτω): Act_2:19; with art. ἡ, Gal.4:26, Php.3:14; τά, Jhn.8:23, Col.3:1-2; ἕως ἄ. (up to the brim), Jhn.2:7 (Cremer, 106; MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G507 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- above5
- up2
- brim1
- high1
First verses
- John 2:7Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
- John 8:23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
- John 11:41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
- Acts 2:19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
- Galatians 4:26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
- Philippians 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Colossians 3:2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
- Hebrews 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἄνω,
BAeolic dialect ὄνω, adverb, (ἀνά):
I with Verbs implying Motion, upwards, ἄ. ὤθεσκε ποτὶ λόφον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.596)]; ἄ. ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἀναπλεῖν up stream, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.155; ἄ. ποταμῶν χωροῦσι παγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 410 (Lyric poetry), hence “ἄ. ποταμῶν”, proverbial, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.287, etc.; κόνις δ᾽ ἄ. φορεῖτο 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 714; κονιορτὸς ἄ. ἐχώρει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.34)]; ἡ ἄ. ὁδός the upward road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621c)]; ἄ. ἰόντι going up the country (i.e. inland, see[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11.1f), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8; ἄ. κάτω, see below 11.2)]; πέμπειν ἄ., i.e. from the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 645 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 147; σύριγγες ἄ. φυσῶσιμέλαν μένος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1412 (Lyric poetry).)]
II with Verbsimplying Rest, aloft, on high, [Refs ([prev. work] 240)], etc.; τὸ ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248a, etc.)]
II.b on earth, opposed to the world below, νέρθε κἀπὶ γῆς ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 416; ἡνίκ᾽ ἦσθ᾽ ἄ. [prev. author] “El.” 1167; ἄ. βλέπειν [prev. author] “Ph.” 1348; ἄ. ἐπὶ [τῆς] γῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 109c)]; οἱ ἄ. the living, opposed to οἱ κάτω the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1068, compare “Ph.” 1348, etc.)]; τὰ ἄ. πράγματα the world above, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 1.)]
II.c in heaven, opposed to earth, οἱ ἄ. θεοί the gods above, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1072; κῆρυξ τῶν ἄ. τε καὶ κάτω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 124)]: especially in NT, ἐκ τῶν ἄ. εἰμί[NT (NT.John.8.23; ἡ ἄ. Ἱερουσαλήμ NT.Gal.4.26; ἡ ἄ. κλῆσις NT.Phil.3.14.)]
II.d generally, of relative position, ὁ δῆμος ἄ. καθῆτο in the upper quarter of the city, i.e. the Pnyx, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.169)]; ἡ ἄ. βουλή, i.e. the Areopagus, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 19)]; βαλλόμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν ἄ. by those above on the roofs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.48; τὰ ἄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.25)]; τὰ ἄ. τῆς οἰκίας, opposed to θεμέλια, [Refs ([prev. author] “Eq.” 1.2; οἱ ἄ. τόποι “OGI” 111.17.)]
II.e geographically, on the upper side, i.e. on the north, ἄ. πρὸς βορέην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.72)]; οὔτε τὰ ἄ. χωρία οὔτε τὰ κάτω [οὔτε τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ οὔτε τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑσπέρην] [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.142; ὁ ἄ. τόπος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 435e.)]
II.f inward from the coast, ἡ ἄ. Ἀσίη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95; τὰ ἄ. τῆς Ἀσίης [prev. work] 177)]; ἡ ἄ. ὁδός the upper or inland road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.128, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.8)]; ἡ ἄ. πόλις, opposed to the Piraeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.48)]; in full, οἱ ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἄ.[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 83; ἡ ἄ. Μακεδονία 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 11)]; ὁ ἄ. βασιλεύς the king of the upper country, i.e. of Persia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.28.)]
II.g in the race-course, τὰ ἄ. turning-post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 613b)]; compare κάτω.
II.h in the body, τὰ ἄ. the upper parts, opposed to τὸ κάτω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 741b28, +others; ἡ ἄ. κοιλία [prev. author] “Mete.” 360b23.)]
i of Time, formerly, of old, εἰς τὸ ἄ. reckoning upwards or backwards, of generations, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175b)]; οἱ ἄ. men of olden time, [Refs ([prev. author] “Criti.” 110b; οἱ ἄ. τοῦ γένους [prev. author] “Lg.” 878a)]; αἱ ἄ. μητρός the mother's lineal ancestors, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 461c, compare below c; ἐν τοῖς ἄ. χρόνοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.310.)]
k above, in referring to a passage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 508e; ἐν τοῖς ἄ. λόγοις “R.” 603d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1412b33, etc.)]
1 of tones in the voice, οἱ ἄ. τόνοι[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 3.)]
1.m metaphorically, ἄ. βαίνειν walk proudly, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.13; ἄ. φρονεῖν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 7.23.)]
1.n higher, more general, of κατηγορίαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Anthologia Graeca” 0.82a23.)]
2 ἄ. καὶ κάτω up and down, to and fro, εἷρπ᾽ ἄ. τε καὶ κάτω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 953; ἄ. καὶ κ. φεύγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 21; ἄ. τε καὶ κ. κυκᾶν [prev. author] “Eq.” 866; περιπατεῖν ἄ. κ. [prev. author] “Lys.” 709.)]
2.b upside-down, topsy-turvy, τὰ μὲν ἄ. κ. θήσω, τὰ δὲ κ. ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.3; πάντ᾽ ἄ. τε καὶ κ. στρέφων τίθησιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 650; τρέπουσα τύρβ᾽ ἄ. κ. [prev. author] “fragment” 311, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 3; ἄ. κ. συγχεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 349; ἄ. καὶ κ. ποιεῖν τὰ πράγματα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.36; τοὺς νόμους στρέφειν 21.19; πόλλ᾽ ἄ., τὰ δ᾽ αὖ κ. κυλίνδοντ᾽ ἐλπίδες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.6; πολλάκις ἐμαυτὸν ἄ. κ. μετέβαλλον)]backwards and forwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96a, compare “Prt.” 356d.)]
3 ἄ. ἔχειν τὸ πνεῦμα pant or gasp, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 23, cf. Sosicrates Comicus 1.)]
B as preposition with genitive, above, ἡ ἄ. Ἅλυος Ἀσίη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.130, compare 103, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 24; αἱ ἄ. μητρός (see. above 11.1 i))]; ἄ. τοῦ γόνατος above the knee, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.4; ἀπὸ ἄ. τῆς χθονὸς ταύτης LXX.1Ki.14.15.)]
B.2 with partitive genitive, αἰθέρος ἄ. ἑλεῖν uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1092, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1542; γῆς ἥκοντ᾽ ἄ. [prev. author] “HF” 616; μικρὸν προαγαγὼν ἄ. τῶν πραγμάτων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.34.)]
C comparative ἀνωτέρω, absolutely, higher, ἀ. θακῶν.. Ζεύς[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 314)]; ἀ. οὐδὲν τῶν πρηγμάτων προκοπτομένων not getting on any farther, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.190; ἀδελφῷ ἢ πατρὶ ἢ ἔτι ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 880b; οὐ προήϊσαν ἀ. τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.130.)]
C.2 with genitive, ἀ. Σάμου[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 132; ἀ. γίγνεσθαί τινων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.25)]; ἀ. τῶν μαστῶν above them, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.4.17)]; later ἀνώτερον[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.7.2, etc.)]; compare ἀνώτερος.
C.II superlative ἀνωτάτω, ἐς τοὺς ἀ. (i.e. στάντας) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23; ἡ ἀ. κώμη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.11; ἀνῳκίσανθ᾽ ὅπως ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 207)]; ἡ ἀ. ἄσκησις the highest, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.24.84, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.33, +others; τὰ ἀ. τῶν γενῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 998b18, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.51, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.138; τὰ ἀ. τρία 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.321)]; ἡ ἀ. διαίρεσις Ps.-[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Aphr. “in SE” 20.27.)]
BAeolic dialect ὄνω, adverb, (ἀνά):
I with Verbs implying Motion, upwards, ἄ. ὤθεσκε ποτὶ λόφον[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.596)]; ἄ. ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἀναπλεῖν up stream, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.155; ἄ. ποταμῶν χωροῦσι παγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 410 (Lyric poetry), hence “ἄ. ποταμῶν”, proverbial, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.287, etc.; κόνις δ᾽ ἄ. φορεῖτο 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 714; κονιορτὸς ἄ. ἐχώρει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.34)]; ἡ ἄ. ὁδός the upward road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621c)]; ἄ. ἰόντι going up the country (i.e. inland, see[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11.1f), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.8; ἄ. κάτω, see below 11.2)]; πέμπειν ἄ., i.e. from the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 645 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 147; σύριγγες ἄ. φυσῶσιμέλαν μένος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1412 (Lyric poetry).)]
II with Verbsimplying Rest, aloft, on high, [Refs ([prev. work] 240)], etc.; τὸ ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 248a, etc.)]
II.b on earth, opposed to the world below, νέρθε κἀπὶ γῆς ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 416; ἡνίκ᾽ ἦσθ᾽ ἄ. [prev. author] “El.” 1167; ἄ. βλέπειν [prev. author] “Ph.” 1348; ἄ. ἐπὶ [τῆς] γῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 109c)]; οἱ ἄ. the living, opposed to οἱ κάτω the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1068, compare “Ph.” 1348, etc.)]; τὰ ἄ. πράγματα the world above, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 1.)]
II.c in heaven, opposed to earth, οἱ ἄ. θεοί the gods above, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1072; κῆρυξ τῶν ἄ. τε καὶ κάτω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 124)]: especially in NT, ἐκ τῶν ἄ. εἰμί[NT (NT.John.8.23; ἡ ἄ. Ἱερουσαλήμ NT.Gal.4.26; ἡ ἄ. κλῆσις NT.Phil.3.14.)]
II.d generally, of relative position, ὁ δῆμος ἄ. καθῆτο in the upper quarter of the city, i.e. the Pnyx, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.169)]; ἡ ἄ. βουλή, i.e. the Areopagus, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 19)]; βαλλόμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν ἄ. by those above on the roofs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.48; τὰ ἄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.25)]; τὰ ἄ. τῆς οἰκίας, opposed to θεμέλια, [Refs ([prev. author] “Eq.” 1.2; οἱ ἄ. τόποι “OGI” 111.17.)]
II.e geographically, on the upper side, i.e. on the north, ἄ. πρὸς βορέην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.72)]; οὔτε τὰ ἄ. χωρία οὔτε τὰ κάτω [οὔτε τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἠῶ οὔτε τὰ πρὸς τὴν ἑσπέρην] [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.142; ὁ ἄ. τόπος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 435e.)]
II.f inward from the coast, ἡ ἄ. Ἀσίη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95; τὰ ἄ. τῆς Ἀσίης [prev. work] 177)]; ἡ ἄ. ὁδός the upper or inland road, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.128, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.8)]; ἡ ἄ. πόλις, opposed to the Piraeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.48)]; in full, οἱ ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἄ.[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 83; ἡ ἄ. Μακεδονία 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 11)]; ὁ ἄ. βασιλεύς the king of the upper country, i.e. of Persia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.28.)]
II.g in the race-course, τὰ ἄ. turning-post, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 613b)]; compare κάτω.
II.h in the body, τὰ ἄ. the upper parts, opposed to τὸ κάτω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 741b28, +others; ἡ ἄ. κοιλία [prev. author] “Mete.” 360b23.)]
i of Time, formerly, of old, εἰς τὸ ἄ. reckoning upwards or backwards, of generations, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175b)]; οἱ ἄ. men of olden time, [Refs ([prev. author] “Criti.” 110b; οἱ ἄ. τοῦ γένους [prev. author] “Lg.” 878a)]; αἱ ἄ. μητρός the mother's lineal ancestors, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 461c, compare below c; ἐν τοῖς ἄ. χρόνοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.310.)]
k above, in referring to a passage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 508e; ἐν τοῖς ἄ. λόγοις “R.” 603d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1412b33, etc.)]
1 of tones in the voice, οἱ ἄ. τόνοι[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 3.)]
1.m metaphorically, ἄ. βαίνειν walk proudly, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.13; ἄ. φρονεῖν 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 7.23.)]
1.n higher, more general, of κατηγορίαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Anthologia Graeca” 0.82a23.)]
2 ἄ. καὶ κάτω up and down, to and fro, εἷρπ᾽ ἄ. τε καὶ κάτω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 953; ἄ. καὶ κ. φεύγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 21; ἄ. τε καὶ κ. κυκᾶν [prev. author] “Eq.” 866; περιπατεῖν ἄ. κ. [prev. author] “Lys.” 709.)]
2.b upside-down, topsy-turvy, τὰ μὲν ἄ. κ. θήσω, τὰ δὲ κ. ἄ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.3; πάντ᾽ ἄ. τε καὶ κ. στρέφων τίθησιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 650; τρέπουσα τύρβ᾽ ἄ. κ. [prev. author] “fragment” 311, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 3; ἄ. κ. συγχεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 349; ἄ. καὶ κ. ποιεῖν τὰ πράγματα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.36; τοὺς νόμους στρέφειν 21.19; πόλλ᾽ ἄ., τὰ δ᾽ αὖ κ. κυλίνδοντ᾽ ἐλπίδες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.6; πολλάκις ἐμαυτὸν ἄ. κ. μετέβαλλον)]backwards and forwards, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 96a, compare “Prt.” 356d.)]
3 ἄ. ἔχειν τὸ πνεῦμα pant or gasp, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 23, cf. Sosicrates Comicus 1.)]
B as preposition with genitive, above, ἡ ἄ. Ἅλυος Ἀσίη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.130, compare 103, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 24; αἱ ἄ. μητρός (see. above 11.1 i))]; ἄ. τοῦ γόνατος above the knee, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.4; ἀπὸ ἄ. τῆς χθονὸς ταύτης LXX.1Ki.14.15.)]
B.2 with partitive genitive, αἰθέρος ἄ. ἑλεῖν uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1092, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1542; γῆς ἥκοντ᾽ ἄ. [prev. author] “HF” 616; μικρὸν προαγαγὼν ἄ. τῶν πραγμάτων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.34.)]
C comparative ἀνωτέρω, absolutely, higher, ἀ. θακῶν.. Ζεύς[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 314)]; ἀ. οὐδὲν τῶν πρηγμάτων προκοπτομένων not getting on any farther, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.190; ἀδελφῷ ἢ πατρὶ ἢ ἔτι ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 880b; οὐ προήϊσαν ἀ. τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέρης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.130.)]
C.2 with genitive, ἀ. Σάμου[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 132; ἀ. γίγνεσθαί τινων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.25)]; ἀ. τῶν μαστῶν above them, [Refs ([prev. work] 1.4.17)]; later ἀνώτερον[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.7.2, etc.)]; compare ἀνώτερος.
C.II superlative ἀνωτάτω, ἐς τοὺς ἀ. (i.e. στάντας) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23; ἡ ἀ. κώμη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.4.11; ἀνῳκίσανθ᾽ ὅπως ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 207)]; ἡ ἀ. ἄσκησις the highest, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.24.84, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.33, +others; τὰ ἀ. τῶν γενῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 998b18, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Zeno Citieus Stoicus 1.51, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.138; τὰ ἀ. τρία 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.321)]; ἡ ἀ. διαίρεσις Ps.-[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Aphr. “in SE” 20.27.)]