Quick Definition
χθές Adv yesterday
Strong's Definition
of uncertain derivation; "yesterday"; by extension, in time past or hitherto
KJV Usage: yesterday
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
advb.
67.203 · Time · Units of Time with Reference to Other Units or Points of Time: Yesterday, Today, Next Day
yesterday a day prior to the time of a discourse
67.87 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young
Collocation: ἐχθὲς καὶ σήμερον καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας
always, eternally, past and present and future (an idiom, literally: yesterday, today, and forever) an unlimited extension of time, from the past into the future
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
χθές (Rec. ; also Grsb. in Acts and Heb.), i. q. ἐχθὲς (q. v-), yesterday; Sept. for yon. [Hom. (h. Merc.), al.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐχθές echthes 3x
yesterday, Jn. 4:52; Acts 7:28; Heb. 13:8*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐχθές (Rec. χθές), adv.,
[in LXX for תְּמוֹל, etc.;]
yesterday: Jo 4:52, Ac 7:28, He 13:8 (on the form, v. Rutherford, NPhr., 370 f.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐχθές. For this form, which alone is found in the NT, and is predominant in the LXX (cf. Thackeray Gr. i. p. 97), we can cite numerous exx. from our documents from Ptolemaic times onwards, e.g. P Eleph 295 (iii/B.c.) περὶ ὧν σοι συνελάλησα σοι (omit) ἐχθές, PSI 1V. 442" (iii/B.c.)#peddev ἂν ἀναχωρῆσαι ἐχθές, P Fay 1087 (c. A.D. 171) ἐχθὲς ἥτις ἣν W τοῦ [ὄϊντος μηνὸς O68, P Lips I. 105} (i/ii A.D.) ἐχθὲς κατέσχον τὸν φύλακα νομίζων σοι δύνασθαι πέμψαι ὃν ἐπεζήτησας λόγον, P Oxy X. 1349 (iv/A.b.) ἐπειδὴ ἐξῆλθα ἀπὸ σοῦ ἐχθὲς μὴ διαλεχθείς σοι περὶ τῆς κυθίδος (/. κυθρίδος). For ἐκθές cf. P Fay 123 (c. A.D. 100) ἐκθές σοι ἔγραψα διὰ Μάρδωνος, and for ἐκχθές, as in LXX Ps So! A, see Cronert Mem. Herc. p. 89 n°. Χθές is found in P Lond 214° (a.p. 270-275) (=I. p. 161) Παταλᾶς ναυπηγὸς χθὲς ἀλόγως γενόμενος εἰς ἀμπελικὸν χωρίον. The above evidence, it will be seen, strongly supports the use of the form ἐχθές in the Koww, notwithstanding the conflicting views of the older grammarians (cf. Lob. PAryn., p- 323, Maidhof Begrif/sbestimmung, p. 362). Even Rutherford (VP, p. 370 ff.), who claims ἐχθές as the regular Attic form as compared with the old Ionic χθές, draws his evidence almost entirely from the comic poets, who borrowed freely from the vernacular. MGr (é)xrés, (ἐψές.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
χθές (chthes) — yesterday. χθές, adverb (lengthened ἐχθές (which see); where the word occurs in NT, [NT] and χθέ; χθές is not found in Ptolemaic papyri, but in [Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—yesterday, [Refs 5th c.BC+] substantive, ἡ χ. ὁμολογία, οἱ χ. λόγοι,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. μὲν.., τὰ νῦν δὲ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. καὶ τρίτην ἡμέραν variant in [LXX+5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit hyás 'yesterday', Latin heri, hesternus, OHG. gestaron 'yesterday', etc.)