Strong G5306ὕστερος

later

Transliteration
husteros
Pronunciation
hoos'-ter-os
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

Comparatively from G5259 (in the sense of behind); later: - latter.

Detailed definition

ὕστερος, -α, -ον
[in LXX for אַחֲרוֹן and cogn. forms;]
latter, later: ἐν ὑ. καιροῖς, 1Ti.4:1 (on the reading ὁ ὕ., WH, for ὁ πρῶτος, see WH, App., in l). Neut., τὸ ὕ., used adverbially instead of ὑστέρως, afterwards, later: Mat.4:2 21:29, 32 21:37 25:11 26:60, Mrk.16:14, Luk.20:32, Jhn.13:36, Heb.12:11; with genitive, Mat.22:27.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5306 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • latter1

First verses

  1. 1 Timothy 4:1
    Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὕστερος,
ὕστᾰτος, latter, last, comparative and superlative without any Posit. adjective in use. (The Posit. must be looked for in Sanskrit úd 'up'; with ὕστερος, ὕστατος cf. Sanskrit comparative and superlative úttaras, uttamás 'higher, (later)', 'highest, (latest)'; compare ὑστέρα.)
A ὕστερος, α, ον, latter:
I of Place, coming after, behind, ὑστέρῳ ποδί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1243, “HF” 1040)]; ὑστέρας ἔχων πώλους keeping them behind, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 734; ὕ. λόχος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.21; ἐν τῷ ὑ. λόγῳ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.14, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 503c, etc.)]; τὰ ὕ. the latter clauses, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.742d (assuming variant, δεύτερα Turnebus): with _genitive_, ὕστεροι ἡμῶν)] behind us, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 206e, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.103)]; οὐδὲν ὑστέρα νεώς not a whit behind (slower than) a ship, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 251.)]
II of Time, next, ὁ δ᾽ ὕστερος ὄρνυτο χαλκῷ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.17, 16.479)]; τῷ ὑ. ἔτει in the next year, X [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“HG” 7.2.10; τῇ ὑ. Ὀλυμπιάδι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.103)]; ὑ. χρόνῳ in after time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.130, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 702 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐν ὑ. χρόνοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 865a; ἐν ὑστέραισιν ἡμέραις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1666 (troch.))]; δεκάτῃ ὑ. or ὑ. δεκάτῃ, on the 21st day, Decrees cited in [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.10, compare 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor “Ars Rhetorica” p.192)] H.: with genitive, later than, after, σεῦ ὕστερος εἶμ᾽ ὑπὸ γαῖαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.333, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 859, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 87c, +others: ὑ. χρόνῳ τούτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166, 5.32, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.54.)]
II.2 later, too late, ὕ. ἐλθών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.320; κἂν ὕ. ἔλθῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 691 (_anapaest meter_); μῶν ὕστεραι πάρεσμε; [prev. author] “Lys.” 69; ὑ. ἀφικνεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.90)]; ὕ. (i.e. ἐλθών) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 222, “Tr.” 92; Διονύσιος ὁ ὕ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)] the second, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1312a4.)]
II.3 with genitive of things, too late for, ὕστεροι ἀπικόμενοι τῆς συμβολῆς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.120; ὕ. ἐλθεῖν τοῦ σημείου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 690 (_anapaest meter_); κακῶν ὕ. ἀφῖγμαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1174; ὕ. ἀφίκοντο τῆς μάχης μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 698e.)]
II.4 as substantive, οἱ ὕ. posterity, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1225)]; ἄνδρες ὕ., ὕ. βροτοί, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 13, 1245.)]
III of inferiority in Age, Worth, or Quality, γένει ὕ., i.e. younger, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.215)]; with genitive, οὐδενὸς ὕ. second to none, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 181 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91; γυναικὸς ὕ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 746)]; μηδ᾽ ἔμπροσθεν τῶν νόμων, ἀλλ᾽ ὕ. πολιτεύου not putting yourself above the laws, but below them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.23)]; σῶμα δεύτερον καὶ ὕ (i.e. ψυχῆς) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 896c)]; νομίσας πάντα ὕστερα εἶναι τἆλλα πρός τι that all things were secondary to.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.41.)]
III.2 logically posterior, ὁ τόπος ὕ. τῆς ὕλης [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.4.12.)]
IV adverb ὑστέρως is found only in Eccl. writers, the ascription to Plato by [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.115V., Thom.Mag. p.284)] R. being now corrected from [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus Ascal. p.405 H., where codices have δευτέρως: the _neuter_ ὕστερον)] was used, rarely of Place, behind, ὀπαδεῖν ὕ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 475; ὕ. τῶν ἱππέων γίγνεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.42.)]
IV.2 of Time, later, afterwards,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (parm. 8.10, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.91, etc.)]; also τὸ ὕ., opposed to τὸ παλαιόν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 61; ὕστερα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.319)]; frequently with other words, ὕ. αὖτις [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.27; οὔποτ᾽ αὖθις ὕ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 858)]; ἔπειτα δ᾽ ὕ., after μέν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 270; εἶτα.. ὕ. [prev. author] 53.4)]; χρόνῳ ὕ. πολλῷ a long time after, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171)]; ὕ. χρόνῳ or χρόνῳ ὕ. some time later, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, 64; χρόνοις ὕ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.39; βραχεῖ χρόνῳ ὕ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.52; οὐ πολλαῖς ἡμέραις ὕ. [prev. author] “HG” 1.1.1)]; ὀλίγῳ or ὀλίγον ὕ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 327c, “Grg.” 471c; πολλῷ ὕ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 58a; οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ὕ.)]posterity, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 415d)]; τὰ ὕ. γράμματα the later inscriptions, [Refs ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 165a.)]
IV.2.b with genitive, ὕ. τούτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.113, etc.; ὕ. ἔτι τούτων [prev. author] 9.83)]; τῆς ἐμεωυτοῦ γνώμης ὕ. after my own opinion was formed, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.18)]; τοῦ δέοντος ὕ. later than ought to be, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 57: with _dative_ et _genitive_, ἔτεσι πολλοῖσι ὕ. τούτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.140, compare 1.91; πολλῷ ὕ. τῶν Τρωϊκῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.22: followed by ἤ, τεσσαρακοστῇ ἡμέρᾳ ὕ... ἢ ποτείδαια ἀπέστη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.60, compare 6.4.)]
IV.3 in adverb sense with Preps., ἐς ὕστερον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.126, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 351, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.41, 74, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1194, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 720, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 82b, etc.: ἐν ὑστέρῳ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13, 8.27: ἐξ ὑστέρου 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.109, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.73; also ἐξ ὑστέρης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.108, 5.106, 6.85.)]
B ὕστᾰτος, η, ον, last:
B.I of Place, ἅμα θ᾽ οἱ πρῶτοί τε καὶ ὕστατοι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.281)]; εὐθυντὴρ ὕστατος νεώς hindmost, of a rudder, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 717; ἡμῖν τοῖς ὑ. κατακειμενοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177e.)]
B.II of Time, τίνα πρῶτον, τίνα δ᾽ ὕ. ἐξενάριξε; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.299, compare 5.703, E “HF” 485, etc.; ὁ δ᾽ ὕ. γε.. πρεσβεύεται 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1300; ἡλίου.. πρὸς ὕ. φῶς [prev. work] 1324)]; τὸν ὕ. μέλψασα γόον[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1445; τοὔπος ὕ. θροεῖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 864)]; ἡ ὑστάτη (i.e. ἡμέρα) τῆς ὁρτῆς the last day of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.151; ἐν τοῖσιν ὑ. φράσω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 908)]; οὐκ ἐν ὑστάτοις not among the last, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1115; οἱ ὕστατοι εἰπόντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.16, etc.)]; ὕστατος ἁλώσιος ἀντάσαις meeting with his downfall at last, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).41.)]
B.III of Rank or Degree, οὐκ ἐν ὑστάτοις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 315)]; τὰ ὕ. πάσχειν, like{τὰ ἔσχατα}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Phal.” 1.5.)]
B.IV for regular adverb ὑστάτως (which occurs only in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“Hippiatrica” 20), the _neuter_ _sing._ and _plural_ are used, πύματόν τε καὶ ὕστατον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.116; ὕστατα καὶ πύματα 4.685, 20.13; νῦν ὕστατα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.232, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.78; ὕστατα ὁρμηθέντες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.43; καὶ πρῶτον καὶ ὕ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 247a)]; ὕ. δή σε προσεροῦσι, τὸ ὕ. προσειπεῖν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Phd.” 60a, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.30.)]
B.IV.2 in adverb sense with Preps., ἐν ὑστάτοις at last, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620c)]; εἰς τὸ ὕ. extremely, γέρων ἐς τὸ ὕ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 9.)]