G4070: πέρυσι (pérysi)

G4070 πέρυσι (pérysi)

Greek

Quick Definition

πέρυσι Adv last year

Strong's Definition

adverb from 4009; the by-gone, i.e. (as noun) last year

KJV Usage: + a year ago

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

πέρυσι (G4070)

advb. | πέραν

67.204 · Time · Units of Time with Reference to Other Units or Points of Time: Yesterday, Today, Next Day

last year a year prior to the year of a discourse

2CO 8:10 · 2CO 9:2

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

πέρυσι, (fr. πέρας), adv., last year; the year just past: ἀπὸ πέρυσι, for a year past, a year ago, [W. 422 (393)], 2 Co. viii. 19; ix. 2. ([Simon.], Arstph., Plat., Plut., Leian.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

πέρυσι perysi 2x

last year, a year ago, 2 Cor. 8:10; 9:2*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

*† πέρυσι, adv.

(< πέρας),

last year, a year ago: ἀπὸ π. (as in π. v. Deiss., BS, 221; LAE, 70), II Co 8:10 9:2.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

πέρυσι. For the phrase ἀπὸ πέρυσι, “last γεατ,᾿᾿ cf. BGU II. 5311. (ii/A.p.) εἰσὶν ἐν τῶι κεραμεῖ ἀπὸ πέρυσι (Spaxpat) ιβ, P Oxy I. 11413 (ii/iii 4.1.) ἀπὸ Τῦβι πέρυσι : see Deissmann BS p. 221. Πέρυσι alone is seen in P Petr II. 4(11)® (B.C. 255-4) ἣν ἐσκάψαμεν πέρυσι, ‘which we dug last year,’’ P Giss I. 694 (A.D. 118-9) Kal yap πέρυσι ἐπὶ τὴν παράλημψιν τῶν ἱματίων αὐτὸν παρά σοι κατέλειψα καὶ νῦν δὲ. . . , P Oxy III. 488* (ii/iii A.D.) καὶ γὰρ καὶ πέρυσι πρὸς τούτοις ἕτερά με κακῶς παρέγραψεν, “for last year also he made other false entries in his register concerning me besides this” (Edd.), and P Fay 1351 (iv/a.D.) χρεωστῖς yap kal Tod πέρυσι λαχανοσπέρμου ἀρτάβην play ἡμίσιαν, ‘for you have been using since last year one and a half artabae of vegetable seed” (Edd.). The foregoing exx. appear to support the rendering ‘‘ last year,” rather than ‘‘a year ago’”’ or ‘‘ for a year past’ in 2 Cor 810, 93 (cf. AV, RV). For the bearing of this upon the date of the Ep., see Lake Harlier Epistles of St. Paul, p- 141f. For the adj. περυσινός cf. PSI VI. 560% (B.c. 257-6 ?) ἐμπυ]ρ[ισ]μὸν τῆς περυσινῆς (sc. ξυλοκοπίας), “burning of last year’s (cut wood),” and Crest. I. τ6γ18 (8.6. 131) εἰ[5] πλήρωσιν τῆς περυσινῆς [ἐγ]λήψεως (‘collecting’). MGr πέρυσι, ‘of last year.” ce 2

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

πέρυσι (perusi) — last year. πέρῠσι, before a vowel πέρυσιν, Aeolic dialect πέρρυσι [Refs 3rd c.BC+], Doric dialect πέρυτι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]: adverb:— a year ago, last year, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν οἱ αὐτοὶ νῦν τε καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ π. [NT]. (Cf. Sanskrit parút, Armenian heru, MHG. vert 'last year'.)