G5550: χρόνος (chrónos)

G5550 χρόνος (chrónos)

Greek

Quick Definition

χρόνος, ου, ὁ n.m. time, a particular time, season

Strong's Definition

of uncertain derivation; a space of time (in general, and thus properly distinguished from 2540, which designates a fixed or special occasion; and from 165, which denotes a particular period) or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay

KJV Usage: + years old, season, space, (X often-)time(-s), (a) while

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

χρόνος (G5550)

noun, m. | -ου | χρονίζω

67.78 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young

time, period of time an indefinite unit of time (the actual extent of time being determined by the context)

MAT 2:7 · MAT 2:16 · MAT 25:19 · MRK 2:19 · MRK 9:21 · LUK 1:57 · LUK 4:5 · LUK 8:27 · LUK 8:29 · LUK 18:4 · LUK 20:9 · LUK 23:8 · JHN 5:6 · JHN 7:33 · JHN 12:35 · JHN 14:9 · ACT 1:6 · ACT 1:21 · ACT 3:21 · ACT 7:23 · ACT 8:11 · ACT 13:18 · ACT 14:3 · ACT 14:28 · ACT 15:33 · ACT 17:30 · ACT 18:20 · ACT 18:23 · ACT 19:22 · ACT 20:18 · ACT 27:9 · ROM 7:1 · 1CO 7:39 · 1CO 16:7 · GAL 4:1 · TIT 1:2 · HEB 4:7 · HEB 5:12 · HEB 11:32 · 1PE 1:17 · 1PE 1:20 · 1PE 4:2 · 1PE 4:3 · REV 2:21 · REV 6:11 · REV 10:6 · REV 20:3

67.1 · Time · A Point of Time without Reference to Other Points of Time: Time, Occasion, Ever, Often

time, occasion points of time consisting of occasions for particular events In a number of languages there is no general term for ‘time’ or ‘occasion.’ In some contexts it is simply not necessary to have such a term. For example, in rendering MAT 13:30 one may translate ‘when the harvest comes, I will say to the reapers’ or ‘when people begin to harvest, I will say to the reapers.’ In other contexts, a term which normally refers to some unit is employed in a generic sense, as in the case of Greek ὥρα which means literally ‘hour’ but is frequently used as a generic expression for a point of time, as in MAT 8:13. In ACT 7:17 χρόνος may often be rendered by a generic expression such as ‘day,’ for example, ‘when it was almost the day for God to keep his promise.’ In the case of MAT 26:45, the nearness of the time may be indicated as ‘very soon the Son of Man will be handed over.’
Though it seems quite ordinary in English for one to speak of ‘time coming’ or ‘... drawing near,’ this type of figurative usage is impossible in many languages. The equivalent may be simply ‘will soon be’ or ‘is about to happen.’ The expression οὔπω ἥκει ἡ ὥρα μου (literally ‘my time has not yet come’) in JHN 2:4 denotes that it is not yet the occasion for a particular event (see καιρός in JHN 7:8 and compare JHN 7:10) but that it will soon be. In these contexts the expression may be rendered as ‘there is still time’ or ‘I will soon do it.’ In JHN 7:30 and JHN 8:20 (οὔπω ἐληλύθει ἡ ὥρα αὐτοῦ ‘his time has not yet come’) the reference is to the occasion of his eventual arrest, implying that it will indeed happen.

ACT 1:7 · ACT 7:17 · GAL 4:4 · 1TH 5:1 · JUD 1:18

67.133 · Time · Duration of Time with Reference to Some Point of Time: Until, Delay, Still, From

Collocation: πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων · χρόνοις αἰωνίοις

since all time, from all ages past, from the beginning of time an exceedingly long period of time from an assumed beginning up to the present

2TI 1:9

¹ χρόνος[a] and καιρός[b] denote essentially a duration of time, but without specified limits. One may, however, speak of a duration as simply a period of time, but this does not imply a unit such as hour, year, or generation.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

χρόνος, -ov, 6, fr. Hom. down, Sept. for ny, ny’, etc. time : Heb. xi. 32; Rev. x. 6; 6 yp. τοῦ φαινομένου ἀστέρος. the time since the star began to shine [ef. φαίνω, 2 a.], Mt. ii. 7; [ὁ yp. τοῦ τεκεῖν αὐτήν (Gen. xxv. 24), Lk. 1.51 (B. 267 (230); ef. W. ξ 44, 4 a.)]; τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, Acts vii. 17; τῆς παροικίας, 1 Pet. i. 17; χρόνοι ἀποκαταστάσεως, Acts iii. 21; of yp. τῆς ἀγνοίας, Acts xvii. 30; χρόνου διαγενομένου, Acts xxvii. 9; πόσος χρόνος ἐστίν, ὡς τοῦτο γέγονεν, MK. ix. 21; ὁ παρεληλυθὼς xp. 1 Pet. iv. 3 (where Ree. adds τοῦ βίου) ; τεσσαρακονταετής, Acts vii. 23; xiii. 18; στιγμὴ χρόνου, Lk. iv. 5; πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου, Gal. iv. 4; ποιεῖν ([q. ν. II. d.] to spend) χρόνον, Acts xv. 33; XVill. 23; βιῶσαι τὸν ἐπίλοιπον χρόνον. 1 Pet. iv. 2; διδόναι χρόνον τινί (i.e. a space of time, respite), ἵνα ete. Rev. ii. 21 [(Joseph. b. 1. 4,3, 10)]; plur. joined with xatpoi, Acts i. 7: 1 Th. v. 1, (see καιρός, 2 6. p. 8195); ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτων (LT Tr WH ἐσχάτου) τῶν xp. (see ἔσχατος, 1 fin.), 1 Pet. i. 20; [add, ἐπ᾿ ἐσχάτου τοῦ (Tr WH om. τοῦ) χρόνου, Jude 18 LT Tr WH]. with prepositions: ἄχρι, Acts ll. 21; διὰ τὸν xp., on account of the length of time, Heb. v. 12 (Polyb. 2, 21,2; Alciphr. 1, 26,9); ἐκ χρόνων ἱκανῶν, for a long time, Lk. viii. 27 [RG L Tr mrg. (see below) ]; ἐν χρόνῳ, Acts i. 6, 21; ἐν ἐσχάτῳ χρόνῳ, Jude 18 Rece.; ἐπὶ χρόνον, [A. V. for a while], Lk. xviii. 4; ἐπὶ πλείονα xp. [A. V. a longer time], Acts xviii. 20; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον xp- fur so long time as, so long as, Ro. vii. 1; 1 Co. vii. 39; Gal. iv. 1; κατὰ τὸν χρόνον, according to (the relations of) the time, Mt. ii. 16; μετὰ πολὺν χρόνον, Mt. xxv. 19; pera τοσοῦτον xp. Heb. iv. 7; πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων, [R. V. before times eternal], 2 Tim. i. 9; Tit. i. 2. the dative is used to express the time during which something oceurs (dat. of duration of time, ef. W. $31, 9; [B. § 133, 26]): [χρόνῳ ἱκανῷ, for a long time, LK. viii. 27T Trtxt. WH]; ἱκανῷ χρόνῳ, Acts viii. 11 ; [τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ, Jn. xiv. 9 LT Trmrg. WH mrg.]; πολλοῖς χρόνοις [R. V. mrg. of a long time (A. V. oftentimes) ; cf. πολύς, 6.1, Lk. viii. 29; αἰωνίοις, [R. V. through times eternal], Ro. xvi. 25. the accus. is used in answer to the question how long: χρόνον, for a while, Acts xix. 22; Rey. vi. 11 (where in R LT Tr WH μικρόν is added) ; also yp. τινά, [A.V. a while], 1 Co. xvi. 7; ὅσον xp. [A.V. while}, Mk. ii. 19; χρόνους ἱκανούς, for a long time, Lk. Xx. 93 μικρὸν χρόνον, Jn. vil. 33; xii. 35; Rev. xx. 3; πολὺν xp. Jn. ν. 6; τοσοῦτον xp. Jn. xiv. 9 [RG Tr txt. WH txt.]; ἱκανόν, [A. V. long time], Acts xiv. 3; οὐκ ὀλίγον, [R. V. no little time], Acts xiv. 28; τὸν πάντα xp. Acts xx. 18. [On the ellipsis of χρόνος in such phrases as ἀφ᾽ ov, ev τῷ ἑξῆς (LK. vii. 11 Lmrg. Tr txt. WH txt.), ἐν τῷ καθεξῆς (Lk. viii. 1), ἐξ ἱκανοῦ, ete., see ἀπό, 1. 4 Ὁ. Ρ- 58

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

χρόνος chronos 54x

time, whether in respect of duration or a definite point of its lapse, Mt. 2:7; 25:19 freq.; an epoch, era, marked duration, Acts 1:7; 1 Thess. 5:1

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

χρόνος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for יוֹם, also for עֵת, etc. ;]

time (a space of time, whether long or short; cf. Lft., Notes, 70): Mt 2:7, Mk 9:21, Lk 1:57, Ac 3:21 7:17, 23 13:18 17:30 27:9, He 11:32, I Pe 1:17 4:3, Re 10:6; στιγμὴ χρόνου, Lk 4:5; πλήρωμα τοῦ χ., Ga 4:4; ποιεῖν χ., Ac 15:33 18:23; βιῶσαι, I Pe 4:2; διδόναι, Re 2:21; pl., χ. καὶ (ἢ) καιροί (Lft., l.c.), Ac 1:7, I Th 5:1; ἐπ’ ἐσχάτου τῶν χ. (χρόνου), I Pe 1:20, Ju 18; c. prep., ἄχρι, Ac 3:21; διὰ τὸν χ., He 5:12; ἐν χ., Ac 1:6, 21; ἐπὶ (πλείονα) χ., Lk 18:4, Ac 18:20; ἐφ’ ὅσον χ., Ro 7:1, I Co 7:39, Ga 4:1; κατὰ τὸν χ., Mt 2:16; μετὰ τολὺν (τοσοῦτον) χ., Mt 25:19, He 4:7; πρὸ χ. αἰωςίων, II Ti 1:9, Tit 1:2, instr. dat. of extension of time (v. M, Pr., 75, 148; Deiss., LAE, 206), Lk 8:27, 29 Jo 14:9, Ac 8:11, Ro 16:25; acc, of duration of time, Mk 2:19, Lk 20:9, Jo 5:6 7:33 12:35 14:9, Ac 14:3, 28 19:22 20:18, I Co 16:7, Re 6:11.†

SYN.: v.s. καιρός

Trench — Synonyms of the New Testament

Severat times in the N. T. but always in the plural, χρόνοι καὶ καιροί are found together (Acts i. 7; 1 Thess. y. 1); and not unfrequently in the Septuagint and the Apocrypha, Wisd. vii. 18; viii. 8 (both instructive passages) ; Dan. ii. 21; and in the singular, Eccles. iii. 1; Dan. vii. 12 : P 210 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. § vu. (but in this last passage the reading is doubtful). Grotius (on Acts i. 7) conceives the difference between them to consist merely in the greater length of the χρόνοι as compared with the καιροί, and writes: “ χρόνοι sunt majora temporum spatia, ut anni; καιροί minora, ut menses et dies.’ Compare Bengel: ‘ χρόνων partes καιροί. This distinction, if not inaccurate, is certainly insufficient, and altogether fails to reach the heart of the matter. Χρόνος is time, contemplated simply as such; the succession of moments (Matt. xxv. 19; Rev. x. 6; Heb. iv. 7); αἰῶνος εἰκὼν κινητή, as Plato calls it (Tim. 37 ἀξ compare Hooker, Hecles. Pol. v. 69) ; διάστημα τῆς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κινήσεως, aS Philo has it (De Mund. Op. 7). It is the German ‘ Zeitraum,’ as distinguished from ‘ Zeitpunkt;’ thus compare Demosthenes, 1357, where both the words occur; and Severianus (Suicer, Thes. 85. v.): χρόνος μῆκός ἐστι; Katpos εὐκαιρία. Καιρός, derived from κείρω, as ‘ tempus’ from ‘temno,’ is time as it brings forth its several births ; thus καιρὸς θερισμοῦ (Matt. xiii. 30); καιρὸς σύκων (Mark xi. 13); Christ died κατὰ καιρόν (Rom. v. 6) ; and above all compare, as constituting a miniature essay on the word, liccles. iii. 1-8: see Keil, in loco. Χρόνος, it will thus appear, embraces all possible καιροί, and, being the larger, more inclusive term, may be often used where καιρός would have been equally suitable, though not the converse; thus χρόνος Tod τεκεῖν. the time of bringing forth (Luke i. 57) ; πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου (Gal. iv. 4), the fulness, or the ripeness, of the time for the manifestation of the Son of God, where we should before have rather expected τοῦ καιροῦ, or Tov καιρῶν, this last phrase actually occurring at Ephes. i. 10. So, too, we may confidently say that the χρόνοι ἀποκαταστάσεως (Acts ili. 21) are identical with the καιροὶ ἀναψύξεως which had just been mentioned before (ver. 19). Thus it is possible to speak of the καιρὸς χρόνου, and Sophocles (Elect. 1292) does so: χρόνου γὰρ ἄν σοι καιρὸν ἐξείργοι λόγος, §ivu. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 211 but not of the χρόνος Kkaipod. Compare Olympiodorus (Suicer, Thes. s. v. ypdvos): χρόνος μέν ἐστι τὸ διάστημα καθ᾽ ὃ πράττεταί τι" καιρὸς δὲ ὁ ἐπιτήδειος THs ἐργασίας χρόνος" ὥστε ὁ μὲν χρόνος καὶ καιρὸς εἶναι δύναται" ὁ δὲ καιρὸς οὐ χρόνος, ἀλλ᾽ εὐκαιρία τοῦ πραττομένου ἐν χρόνῳ γινομενή. Ammonius: ὁ μὲν καιρὸς δηλοῖ ποιότητα χρόνου. χρόνος δὲ ποσότητα. In ἃ fragment of Sosipater, quoted by Athenzeus, ix. 22, εὔκαιρος χρόνος occurs. From what has been said, it will appear that when the Apostles ask the Lord, “‘ Wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” and He makes answer, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons” (Acts i. 6, 7), ‘the times’ (χρόνοι) are, in Augustine’s words, ‘ ipsa spatia temporum,’ and these contemplated merely under the aspect of their duration, over which the Church’s history should extend; but ‘the seasons’ (xaspol) are the joints or articulations in these times, the critical epoch-making periods fore-ordained of God (καιροὶ προτεταγμένοι, Acts xvii. 26; cf. Augustine, Conf. xi. 13: ‘ Deus operator temporum’); when all that has been slowly, and often without observation, ripening through long ages is mature and comes to the birth in grand decisive events, which constitute at once the close of one period and the commencementof another. Such, for example, was the passing away with a great noise of the old Jewish dispensation ; such, again, the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire; such the conversion of the Germanic tribes settled within the limits of the Empire ; and such again the conversion of those outside; such the great revival which went along with the first institution of the Mendicant Orders; such, by still better right, the Reformation; such, above all others, the second coming of the Lord in glory (Dan. vii. 22). The Latin had no word by which adequately to render καιροί. Augustine complains of this (Hp. cxcvil. 2) ; ‘Greece legitur χρόνους ἢ καιρούς. Nostri autem utrumque P2 212 SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, ὃυνπ. hoe verbum tempora appellant, sive χρόνους, sive καιρούς, cum habeant hee duo inter se non negligendam differentiam: καιρούς quippe appellant Greece tempora quedam, non tamen que in spatiorum voluminibus transeunt, sed quee in rebus ad aliquid opportunis vel importunis sentiuntur, sicut messis, vindemia, calor, frigus, pax, bellum, et si qua similia; χρόνους autem ipsa spatia temporum vocant.’ It will be seen that he does not recognize ‘ tempestivitas,’ which, however, is used by Cicero. Bearing out this complaint of his, we find in the Vulgate the most various renderings of καιροί, as often as it occurs in combination with χρόνοι, and cannot therefore be rendered by ‘tempora,’ which χρόνοι has preoccupied. Thus ‘tempora et momenta’ (Acts i. 7; 1 Thess. v. 1), ‘tempora et etates’ (Dan. ii. 21), ‘ tempora et secula’ (Wisd. viii. 8); while a modern Latin commentator on the N. T. has ‘ tempora et articuli’ ; Bengel, ‘intervalla et tempora.’ It might be urged that ‘tempora et opportunitates’ would fulfil all necessary conditions. Augustine has anticipated this suggestion, but only to demonstrate its insufficiency, on the ground that ‘ opportunitas’ (=‘ opportunum tempus’) is a convenient, favourable season (εὐκαιρία) ; while the καιρός may be the most inconvenient, most unfavourable of all, the essential notion of it being that it is the critical nick of time, the ἀκμή, Sophocles, Philoct. 12; Ajaw, 822; but whether, as such, to make or to mar, effectually to help or effectually to hinder, the word determines not at all (‘sive opportuna, sive importuna sint tempora, καιροί dicuntur’). At the same time it is oftener the former: καιρὸς yap ὅσπερ ἀνδράσιν Μέγιστος ἔργου παντός ἐστ᾽ ἐπιστάτης (Sophocles, Electra, 75, 76). On {πὸ distinction between χρόνος, καιρός, and αἰών, see Schmidt, Synonymik, vol. ii. p. 54 864. givur. SYNONYMS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 213

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

χρόνος, “time, a time,” ‘‘a period”: P Petr II 40 (a)!* (iii/B.c.) ὀλίγος yap χρόνος ὑμῖν ἐστιν, P Strass I. γ41 (A.D. 126) τοῦ χρόνου πληρωθέντος οὐκέτι βούλομαι αὐτὰς (sc. ἀρούρας) γεωργεῖν ἀποδεδωκὼς πάντᾳ τὰ ἐκφόρια τῶν ἔμπρίο]σθεν χρόνων, P Lond 12317? (a.p. 144) (-- ΠῚ. p. 109) τοῦ χρόνου τῆς μισθώσεως πεπληροκότος, and P Oxy I. τοι (A.D. 142) xpd(vos) ὁ α(ὐτός), ‘the same date.” For the acc. of duration of time, as in Mk 2:9 αἱ,, cf. P Petr IL. 12 (3)!8 (B.c. 241) οὐ τὸν πλείω χρόνον καταφθαρησόμεθα, ‘we shall no longer be harried,” BGU IV. 1055° (B.C. 30) τὸν μεμερισμένον αὐτῷ χρόνον, a common phrase in Alexandrian contracts : and for the instr. dat. of extension of time, as in Lk 851,39 α΄ (cf. Proleg. p. 75), cf. P Strass I. 2251 (iii/A.D.) οὐδεμίαν παρείσδυσιν ἔχεις, ἡ γὰρ γίυν]ὴ ἐν τῇ νομῇ γέγονεν πολλῷ χρόνῳ, and the recurrent formula in private letters ἐρρῶσθαί σε εὔχομαι πολλοῖς Χρόνοις, e.g. P Oxy VI. ο3653 (iii/a.D.), 2d. I. 1128 (iii/iv A.D.), and P Lond 41714 (c. A.D. 346) (= II. p. 299, Selections, p. 124). These last exx. show the approach to the MGr meaning “year”: cf. P Gen I. 50%! (iv/A.p.) ἐρρῶσθα[( σε] ὡς πλείστ[οι]ς ἔτεσειν εὔχομαι, where ἔτεσιν takes the place of the usual χρόνοις, and the Christian inscr, 7AS xxii. (1902), Ρ- 369. (cited s.v. διχοτομέω), in which the writer says of his wife—ty συνζησάσᾳ μοι χρόνους ὀλίγους ἐπι[τ]ίμως. For numerous exx. in late Greek of χρόνος = ‘‘ year,’’ see Sophocles Zex. s.v. For χρόνος with prepositions, see P Oxy I. 6810 (A.D. 131) ἀπὸ τῶν ἔνπροσθεν χρόνων : P Lille I. 268 (iii/p.c.) διὰ τὸ πλείω χρόνον, P Lips I. τιοῦῦ (iii/iv A.D.) διὰ πολλοῦ χρόνου: P Tebt I. 5617 (late 11.8.6.) εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνίον, P Fay 117°8 (A.D. 108) εἰς τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον: P Strass I. 51° (a.p. 262) ἐκ παλαιοῦ χρόνου, OG/S gol (Rosetta stone—B.c. 196) ἐκ πολλοῦ χρόνου: CPR I. 13? ἐν τοῖς ἔν[ πρ]οσθεῖ ν] χρόν[οι]ς, 24. 2358 ἐν τοῖς τῆς συνβιόσεως χρόνοις : BGU IV. ττ1265 (B.C. 8) ἐπὶ χρόνον ἔτη τρία ἀπὸ Μεχεὶρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος... ἔτους, and so 16. 10219 (ili/A.D.), P Oxy II, 275} (A.D. 66) ἐπὶ τὸν ὅλον χρόνον, P Tebt Il. 38119 (A.D. 123) ἐφ᾽ ὃν .. χρόνον: BGU IV. 11255 (B.C. 14) ἕως τοῦ προκ(ειμένου) xpd(vov): P Petr II. 13(19)!° (B.c. 258-253) ka’ ὃν χρόνον, P Giss I. 489 (A.D, 202-203) Ta κατὰ χρόνους δοθέντα emiBépata: P Oxy XIV. 16411? (A.D. 68) μετὰ τὸν χρόνον, ‘‘at the end of the period’: CPR I. 104” (iii/A.D.) μέχρι τοῦ τῆς κυρώσεως χρόνου: P Flor III. 282° (a.D. 520) πρὸς ὅλον χρόνον : and P Ryl IL. 1807 (a.D. 124) ὑπὲρ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν χρόνων μέχρι 2 εἰ

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

χρόνος (chronos) — time. χρόνος, ὁ, time, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῶν δὲ πεπραγμένων ἀποίητον οὐδ᾽ ἂν χ. δύναιτο θέμεν τέλος P.[Refs 5th c.BC+]; but in Prose, τοῦ χ. τὸν πλεῖστον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρόνου πολλοῦ δέονται take a long time, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __b time in the abstract, ἀμερὴς χ. Timo 76; τριμερής [Refs 4th c.BC+]

2. a definite time, period, δεκέτης, τρίμηνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. βίου, ἥβης χ., [Refs 5th c.BC+] with chronological accuracy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς χ. by the dates, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετενεγκόντα τοὺς χ. altering the dates, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρόνων μῆκος (uncertain, to be read χρόνου) [Refs 6th c.AD+]

2. b date, term of payment due, [Refs]

2. c year, Ἑλληνικά 1.233 [Refs 1st c.BC+]

2. d equatorial degree, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

3. Special phrases:

3. a accusative, χρόνον for a while, for a long or short time, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολὺν χρόνον for a long time, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς τὸν αἰὲν χ. for ever, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ πολὺς χ. ἐξ οὗ[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦν χρόνος ἐν ᾧ.., or ὅτε.., Linusap.[Refs 5th c.BC+]once for all, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

3. b genitive, χρόνου περιιόντος as time came round, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; so χ. ἐπιγενομένου, διεξελθόντος, προβαίνοντος, [Refs]; χρόνου γενομένου after a time, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ὀλίγου χρόνου in a short time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ μακροῦ χ., τοῦ λοιποῦ χ., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόσου χ.; after how long? [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. c dative, χρόνῳ in process of time, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; χρόνῳ, χρόνοις ὕστερον, long after, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ χρόνῳ immediately, Ps.Democr.Alch.p.49B.: also with Article, τῷ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]

3. d ὁ ἄλλος χ., in Attic dialect, of past time, [Refs 4th c.BC+] of future, see at {λοιπός} 3; so χ. ἐφέρπων, ἐπαντέλλων, μέλλων, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also κατὰ χ. ἱκνούμενον or κατὰ χ. [τὸν] ἱ. at a later (or the fitting) time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

4. with Preps.:—ἀνὰ χρόνον in course of time, after a time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. b ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνου from such time as.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. c διὰ χρόνου after a time, after an interval, [Refs 5th c.BC+] means one space of time after another, day after day, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. d ἐκ πολλοῦ τευ χ. a long time since, long ago, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. e ἐν χρόνῳ, like{χρόνῳ}, in course of time, at length, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; for a long time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν χρόνοισι perhaps formerly, [[Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. f ἐντὸς χρόνου within a certain time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

4. g ἐπὶ χρόνον for a time, for a while, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; παυρίδιον or παῦρον ἐπὶ χ., [Refs 8th c.BC+]

4. h ἐς χρόνον hereafter, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __i μετὰ χρόνον after a time, [Refs]; μέχρι τοῦ αὐτοῦ χ. up to the same time, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __k πρὸ τοῦ καθήκοντος χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+] __l σὺν (ξὺν) χρόνῳ, like{χρόνῳ} or διὰ χρόνου, [Refs 4th c.BC+] __m ὑπὸ χρόνου by lapse of time, [Refs 5th c.BC+] about the same time, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. lifetime, age, ὁ μακρὸς ἀνθρώπων χρόνος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοσόσδε τῷ χ. so far gone in years, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. season or portion of the year, περιγράψαι τοῦ ἔτους χρόνον [Refs 5th c.BC+]

IV. delay, οὐδ᾽ ἐποίησαν (perhaps ἐνεποίησαν) χ. οὐδένα [Refs 4th c.BC+]linger, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; χρόνους ἐμποιεῖν to interpose delays, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

V. Grammars,

V.1. tense of a verb, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]

V.2. time or quantity of a syllable, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the augment, [Refs]

V.3. in Rhythmic and Music, time, διαιρεῖται ὁ χ. ὑπὸ τῶν ῥυθμιζομένων [Refs 4th c.BC+] W., etc.; ὁ πρῶτος [χ.] time-unit, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; χρόνος κενός [Refs 4th c.BC+]