ὀπίσω, ([perh.] fr. ἡ ὄπις ; and this fr. ἔπω, ἕπομαι, to follow [but ef. Vaniéek p. 530]), adv. of place and time, fr. Hom. down; Sept. for 7s, ins and esp. for "ὙΠ (at the) back, behind, after; 1. adverbially of place: €orava, Lk. vii. 38; ἐπιστρέψαι ὀπίσω, back, Mt. xxiv. 18 (ὑποστρέφειν ὀπίσω, Joseph. antt. 6, 1, 3); τὰ ὀπίσω, the things that are behind, Phil. iii. 13 (14); εἰς Ta ὀπίσω ἀπέρχεσθαι, to go backward, Vulg. abire retrorsum, Jn. xviii. 6 ; to return home, of those who grow recreant to Christ’s teaching and cease to follow him, Jn. vi. 66; στρέφεσθαι, to turn one’s self back, Jn. xx. 14; ἐπιστρέφειν, to return back to places left, Mk. xiii. 16; Lk. xvil. 31; ὑποστρέψαι εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, trop., of those who return to the manner of thinking and living already abandoned, 2 Pet. ii. 21 Lchm.; βλέπειν (Vulg. [aspicere or] respicere retro [ A. V. to look back]), Lk. ix. 62. 2. By a usage unknown to Grk. auth., as a prep. with the gen. [W. § 54,6; Β. 8 146, 1]; a. of place: Rev. ΄-» ΟἸΤΟΌ i. 10 [WH mrg. ὄπισθεν; xii. 15, (Num. xxv. 8; Cant. ii. 9); in phrases resembling the Hebr. [cf. W. 30; B. u. 8. and 172 (150)]: ὀπίσω τινὸς ἔρχεσθαι to follow any one as a guide, to be his disciple or follower, Mt. xvi. 24; Lk. ix. 23; Mk. viii. 34 RL Trmrg. WH; [ef. Lk. xiv. 27]; also ἀκολουθεῖν, Mk. viii. 34 GT Trtxt.; Mt. X. 38, (see ἀκολουθέω, 2 fin.) ; πορεύεσθαι, to join one’s self to one as an attendant and follower, Lk. xxi. 8 (Sir. xlvi. 10); to seek something one lusts after, 2 Pet. ii. 10 [ef. W. 594 (553); B. 184 (160)]; ἀπέρχομαι ὀπίσω τινός, to go off in order to follow one, to join one’s party, Mk. i. 20; Jn. xii. 19; to run after a thing which one lusts for [ef. B. u. s.], ἑτέρας σαρκός, Jude 7; δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου (see δεῦτε, 1), Mt. iv. 19; Mk. i. 17; ἀποστέλλειν τινὰ ὀπίσω τινός, Lk. xix. 14; ἀφιστάναι, ἀποσπᾶν τινα ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, to draw one away to (join) his party, Acts v.37; xx. 30; ἐκτρέπεσθαι, to turn out of the right path, turn aside from rectitude, 1 Tim. v. 15; by a pregnant construction, after θαυμάζειν, to wonder after i. 6. to be drawn away by admiration to follow one [B. 185 (160 sq-)], Rev. xiii. 3 (πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ἐξέστη ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, 1 8. Xl. 7); ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, [ A. V. get thee behind me], out of my sight: Lk. iv. 8 RLbr.; Mt. iv. 10 [6 Lbr.]; xvi. 23; Mk. viii. 33. Ὁ. of time, after: ἔρχεσθαι ὀπίσω τινός, to make his public appearance after (subsequently to) one, Mt.-iii. 11; Mk. i. 7; Jn. i. 15, 27, 30, (ὀπίσω τοῦ σαββάτου, Neh. xiii. 19).

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can function as an improper prep., behind, after, at one’s back, Mt. 4:10; Lk. 7:38; Rev. 1:10; τὰ ὀπίσω, the things which are behind, Phil. 3:13; ὀπίσω and εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, back, backwards, Mt. 24:18; Mk. 13:16; Lk. 9:62, when an improper prep., takes the gen.

ὀπίσω, adv. of place and time,

[in LXX chiefly for אַחֲרֵי, אַחַר and cogn. forms;]

prop., as in cl., adv., of time (not in NT);

of place, back, behind, after: Mt 24:18, Lk 7:38; τὰ ὀ., Phl 3:13; εἰς τὰ ὀ., Mk 13:16, Lk 9:62 17:31, Jo 6:66 18:6 20:14.

By a usage not found in cl., and in LXX representing the Heb. prep. אַחֲרֵי (Bl., § 40, 8; Thackeray, Gr., 46 f.), but also prob. general in vernacular (M, Pr., 99), as prep. c. gen.; of time, after: Mt 3:11, Mk 1:7, Jo 1:15, 27, 30;

of place, behind, after: Mt 4:19 10:38 16:23, 24, Mk 1:17, 20 8:33, 34, Lk 9:23 14:27 19:14 21:8, II Pe 2:10, Ju 7, Re 1:10 12:15; in constr. praegn. (v. Swete on Re 13:3), Jo 12:19, Ac 5:17 20:30, I Ti 5:15, Re 13:3.†

ὀπίσω. For ὄπισθεν (Rev 5!—like Juvenal’s ‘“‘scriptus et zz tergo necdum finitus Orestes’’: i. 6), cf. P Tebt I. 58 γεείοβτ (B.C. 111) τἀπίλοιπα ὀπείσωι, ‘continued on the back,” and similarly 26. 178 (late ii/B.c.). For another form of ‘‘ P.T.O.’’ we may cite P Rev L*1-18 (p.c. 259-8) ἔξω Spa. See also Meyer Osty 617° (iii/B.C.) ὀπίσω, ‘ turn over,’ at the end of an account, though as a matter of fact nothing is written on the reverse side of the sheet, and BGU III. 1oo2?* (B.c. 55), where, at the end of a contract, we ἢπα --ἐπεγράφησαν ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω paptipwiy> (/. ἐκ τοῦ ὀπίσω μάρτυρες), with reference to the names of the sixteen witnesses on the back. The superlative ὀπιστωτάτη occurs in Preisigke 4308° (iii/B.c.?), unfortunately with lacunae before and after. On the Hebraistic influence in such a phrase as ζητεῖν ὀπίσω τινός (Job 39%) see Thackeray Gr. i. p. 47, and on the survival of (ὀγπίσω in MGr cf. Moulton Pro/eg. p. 99. oo

ὀπίσω (opisō) — after. ὀπίσω [ῐ], Epic dialect ὀπίσσω, the former rare in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ὐπίσσω [Refs 7th c.BC+]:— adverb:

I. of Place, backwards, opposed to to πρόσω, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; to προπρηνές,[Refs 8th c.BC+] contraction τοὐπίσω, τὸ ὀ. φεύγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὀ. the hinder parts, [LXX+1st c.BC+] on the back (of the papyrus), [Refs 1st c.BC+]; τἀπίλοιπα ὀ. [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

I.2. back, back again, of movement, ἀπήνυσαν οἴκαδ᾽ ὀπίσσω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν τῇ ὀ. κομιδῇ on his way back, [Refs]

I.3. back again, again, of action that reverses an action or occurrence, ἀνακτᾶσθαι ὀ. τὴν τυραννίδα [Refs]; σφραγίζεις λύεις τ᾽ ὀπίσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.4. with genitive, δεῦτε ὀ. μου come after me, follow me, [NT]

II. of Time, hereafter, since the future is unseen and was therefore regarded as behind us, whereas the past is known and therefore before our eyes, ἡμῖν τεκέεσσί τ᾽ ὀπίσσω πῆμα λίποιτο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Τρῳαὶ δέ μ᾽ ὀπίσσω πᾶσαι μωμήσονται[Refs 8th c.BC+]; where ὀπίσσω and πρόσσω are opposed, πρόσσω must be the past and ὀπίσσω the future, οἶδε νοῆσαι ἅμα πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὁρῶν οὔτ᾽ ὀπίσω neither present nor future, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. ἐν τοῖσι ὀ. λόγοις in the books yet to come, in the following books, [Refs 5th c.BC+]