Quick Definition
ἤδη Adv now, already
Strong's Definition
apparently from 2228 (or possibly 2229) and 1211; even now
KJV Usage: already, (even) now (already), by this time
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
advb.
67.20 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
already a point of time preceding another point of time and implying completion Note that the subsequent point of time in LUK 11:7 and MAT 3:10 is the act of speaking.
MAT 3:10 · MAT 5:28 · MAT 14:15 · MAT 14:24 · MAT 15:32 · MAT 17:12 · MAT 24:32 · MRK 4:37 · MRK 6:35 · MRK 6:35 · MRK 8:2 · MRK 11:11 · MRK 13:28 · MRK 15:42 · MRK 15:44 · LUK 3:9 · LUK 7:6 · LUK 11:7 · LUK 12:49 · LUK 14:17 · LUK 19:37 · LUK 21:30 · LUK 21:30 · LUK 23:44 · LUK 24:29 · JHN 3:18 · JHN 4:35 · JHN 4:51 · JHN 5:6 · JHN 6:17 · JHN 7:14 · JHN 9:22 · JHN 9:27 · JHN 11:17 · JHN 11:39 · JHN 13:2 · JHN 15:3 · JHN 19:28 · JHN 19:33 · JHN 21:4 · JHN 21:14 · ACT 4:3 · ACT 27:9 · ACT 27:9 · ROM 13:11 · 1CO 4:8 · 1CO 4:8 · 1CO 5:3 · 1CO 6:7 · PHP 3:12 · PHP 3:12 · 2TH 2:7 · 1TI 5:15 · 2TI 2:18 · 2TI 4:6 · 1JN 2:8 · 1JN 4:3
67.40 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
Collocation: ἤδη ποτέ
already now, now at last, now at length (an idiom, literally: already sometime) a time simultaneous with the discourse but in relationship to preceding time
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἤδη, adv., [fr. Hom. down; on deriv. see Vanitek p. 745; Peile p. 395], in the N. T. everywh. of time, now, already, (Lat. jam): Mt. iii. 10; v. 28; xiv.15; Mk. iv. 37; ΧΙ. 11; Lk. vii. 6; xii. 49; [xxiv. 29 T WH Trtxt., L Tr mrg. br.]; Jn. iv. 35 (36), 51; xix. 28 (that all things were now finished and that nothing further remained for him to do or to suffer); Acts xxvii. 9; Ro. xiii. 11 (that it is already time to wake up and indulge no longer in sleep); 1 Co. iv. 8, and often; νῦν... ἤδη, now already (Lat. jam nunc): 1 Jn. iv. 3; ἤδη ποτέ, now at last, at length now: with fut. Ro. i. 10; [with aor. Phil. iv. 10. Syn. see ἄρτι, fin.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἤδη ēdē 62x
before now, now, already, Mt. 3:10; 5:28; ἤδη ποτέ, at length, Rom. 1:10; Phil. 4:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἤδη adv., in NT, always of time; now, already: Mt 3:10, Mk 4:37, Lk 7:6, Jo 4:36, al.; νῦν . . . ἤ., now already, I Jo 4:3; ἤ. ποτέ, now at length, c. fut., Ro 1:10 (cf. ἄρτι).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἤδη. For the idea of ‘logical proximity and immediateness ”’ (cf. Baumlein Griech. Partikeln, p. 138 ff.) which underlies this word and is perhaps to be seen in 1 Cor 67 (cf. Ellicott ad /.), we may cite the common use of the adverb in magical incantations, e.g. P Par 574128 (iii/A.p.) (= Selectzons, p. 114) ἔξελθε, δαῖμον, .. . καὶ ἀπόστηθι ἀπὸ τοῦ S(c)i(va) ἄρτι ἄρτι ἤδη, P Lond 121978 (iii/A.p.) (ΞΞ 1. p. 96) ἐν [τ]ῇ ἄρτι ὥρᾳ ἤδη ἤδη ταχὺ ταχύ: see also Deissmann ZS, p. 289, Archiv i. p. 426. Other examples of the word are P Fay 109! (early i/A.D.) τοὺς τρεῖς στατῆρες (/. -ας) ods εἴρηκέ σοι Σέλευκος δῶναί por ἤδη δὸς Κλέωνι, ‘the three staters which S. told you to give me, now give to C.,” P Ryl II. 7748 (a.p. 192) κα[ὶ] ὀφείλει στεφῆναι, ἤδη yap ἡ ἀρχὴ ἀδιάπτωτός ἐστιν τῇ πόλί(ει), ‘and he ought to be crowned, for the office is now secured to the city” (Edd.). For ἤδη οὖν see P Tebt 11. 423! (early iii/a.p.) ἔμαθον εἰληφότα παρ᾽ ᾿Αματί[ο]υ τὸν dpaka. ἤδη οὖν ὡς δι[εἸτάγη χωρησάτω cis τὴν Τβεκλῦτιν χορτάρακός τε καὶ ἄρακος μ[ο]ναχὸς εἰς σπέρματα, “1 have learned that you have received the aracus from Amatius. Now therefore, as was ordered, let the grass-aracus and the aracus go alone to Tbeklutis for seed,” and for ἤδη ποτέ, “‘now at length,’’ as in Rom 110 (‘some near day at last,’” SH), Phil 419, see the ostrakon from Thebes of A.D. 192 published in ZAZ, p. 186 (= Meyer Ostr 575) καὶ ἤδη ποτὲ δὸς τῇ ἐμῇ παιδίσκῃ τὰς τοῦ πυ(ροῦ), ‘Cand now at length give my maid the (artabae) of wheat’’: cf. also Epict. iii. 24. 9 οὐκ amoyaλακτίσομεν ἤδη ποθ᾽ ἑαυτούς ;
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἤδη (ēdē) — already. ἤδη, adverb:
1. already, by this time, νὺξ ἤ. τελέθει 'tis already night, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with numerals, ἤ. γὰρ τρίτον ἔτος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦν δ᾽ ἦμαρ ἤ. δεύτερον[Refs]
2. forthwith, immediately, φρονέω δὲ διακρινθήμεναι ἤ. Ἁργείους καὶ Τρῶας [Refs 8th c.BC+]; στείχοις ἂν ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤδη.. στέλλεσθ; [Refs]; μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ. ποτέ now at length, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; on the verso of a letter, urgent, immediate, PCair. Zen.154 [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἤ. ἤ. ταχὺ ταχύ [Refs]
3. opposed to to the future or past, actually, now, οὐκ ὄναρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ μὲν τάχ᾽, οἱ δ᾽ ἐσαῦθις, οἱ δ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τάχ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἤ. χάρις present favour, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. of logical proximity, ἤ. γὰρ ἂν προστίθεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐκ τούτων ἤ. συγκείμενα[Refs]; τοῦτο τοὔπος δεινὸν ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ πάντα τὰ πράγματα διαφθείραντα ταῦτ᾽ ἐστὶν ἤ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]
4. b καὶ ἤ. and further, as well, ἐμέ τε καὶ σὲ καὶ τἆλλ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. c for instance, [Refs]
4. d only then, then and not before, τότ᾽ ἤδη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
5. with superlative, ὦ πάντων ἀνδρῶν ἤ. μάλιστα.. κτησάμενε up to this time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with comparative, ἤδη.. λόγου μέζων [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. joined with other words of time, ἤ. νῦν now already, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῦν ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ποτ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάλαι ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ. τότε even then, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπεὶ ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰ ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ τηνίκ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ λοιπὸν ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ. γε even now, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. of place, ἀπὸ ταύτης ἤ. Αἴγυπτος after this Egypt begins, [Refs 5th c.BC+]