Strong's Concordance é: or, than Original Word: ἤPart of Speech: Particle, Disjunctive Particle Transliteration: é Phonetic Spelling: (ay) Definition: or, than Usage: or, than. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. conjunction used disjunctively or cptv. Definition or, than NASB Translation either (4), nor (1), or (282), or else (4), other than (1), rather (1), rather than (2), than (36), than...or (1), whether (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2228: ἤἤ, a disjunctive conjunction (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 6). Used 1. to distinguish things or thoughts which either mutually exclude each other, or one of which can take the place of the other: or (Latinaut,vel); a. to distinguish one thing from another in words of the same construction: Matthew 5:17 (τόν νόμον ἤ τούς προφήτας), Matthew 5:36 (λευκήν ἤ μέλαιναν); Matthew 6:31; Matthew 7:16; Mark 6:56; Mark 7:11; Luke 2:24; Luke 9:25; John 7:48; John 13:29; Acts 1:7; Acts 3:12; Acts 4:7; Romans 1:21; Romans 3:1; 1 Corinthians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 10:19; Galatians 1:10, etc. b. after an interrogative or a declarative sentence, before a question designed to prove the same thing in another way: Matthew 7:4, 9; Matthew 12:29; Matthew 16:26; Matthew 26:53; Mark 8:37; Luke 13:4; Luke 14:31; Luke 15:8; Romans 9:21; Romans 14:10; 1 Corinthians 6:16. c. before a sentence contrary to the one just preceding, to indicate that if one be denied or refuted the other must stand: Matthew 20:15 (i. e. or, if thou wilt not grant this, is thine eye etc.); Romans 3:29; 1 Corinthians 9:6; 1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Corinthians 11:14 (Rec.); d. ἤ ... ἤ, either ... or, Matthew 6:24; Matthew 12:33; Luke 16:13; Acts 24:20; 1 Corinthians 14:6. 2. in a disjunctive question it corresponds to the Latinan afterutrum; a. preceded by πότερον, John 7:17; cf. Klotz ad Dev. 2:2, p. 574f; preceded by the interrogative μή, 1 Corinthians 9:8; preceded by μήτι, 2 Corinthians 1:17. b. without an intertog. particle in the first member of the interrogation: τί ἐ c. ἤ ... ἤ ... ἤ, Mark 13:35. 3. as a comparative conjunction, than; a. after comparatives: Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:22; Luke 9:13; Luke 16:17; John 3:19; John 4:1 (Tr marginal reading omits; WH brackets ἤ); Acts 4:19; Romans 13:11, and often. ἤ is lacking after πλείους followed by a noun of number: Matthew 26:53 T Tr WH; Acts 4:22; Acts 23:13, 21; Acts 24:11 (where Rec. adds ἤ); cf. Matthiae, § 455 note 4; Kühner, ii., p. 847; (Jelf, § 780 Obs. 1); Winers Grammar, 595 (554); (Buttmann, 168 (146)); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 410f. b. after ἕτερον: Acts 17:21. c. πρίν ἤ, before that, before, followed by accusative with an infinitive (cf. Buttmann, § 139, 35; Winer's Grammar, § 44, 6, also, p. 297 (279)): Matthew 1:18; Mark 14:30; Acts 2:20 R G WH marginal reading; Acts 7:2; followed by the aorist subjunc, Luke 2:26 Tr text omits; WH brackets ἤ; d. after θέλω equivalent to to prefer: 1 Corinthians 14:19 (followed by ἤ e. after f. after positive notions, to which in this way a comparative force is given: after καλόν ἐ 4. with other particles; a. ἀ b. ἤ γάρ, see γάρ, I. at the end c. ἤ καί (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 6 note), d. ἤ e. ἤ A primary particle of distinction between two connected terms; disjunctive, or; comparative, than -- and, but (either), (n-)either, except it be, (n-)or (else), rather, save, than, that, what, yea. Often used in connection with other particles. Compare especially ede, eper, etoi. see GREEK ede see GREEK eper see GREEK etoi Englishman's Concordance Matthew 1:18 PrtclGRK: Ἰωσήφ INT: to Joseph before rather came together they Matthew 5:17 Prtcl Matthew 5:18 Prtcl Matthew 5:36 Prtcl Matthew 6:24 Prtcl Matthew 6:24 Prtcl Matthew 6:25 Art-NFS Matthew 6:31 Prtcl Matthew 6:31 Prtcl Matthew 7:4 Prtcl Matthew 7:9 Prtcl Matthew 7:10 Prtcl Matthew 7:16 Prtcl Matthew 9:5 Prtcl Matthew 10:11 Prtcl Matthew 10:14 Prtcl Matthew 10:15 Prtcl Matthew 10:19 Prtcl Matthew 10:37 Prtcl Matthew 10:37 Prtcl Matthew 11:3 Prtcl Matthew 11:22 Prtcl Matthew 11:24 Prtcl Matthew 12:5 Prtcl Matthew 12:25 Prtcl |