eschatos · last

What it means

eschatos (ἔσχατος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “last”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The one who comes behind all, in line or in esteem.
2. Last in time: "the last day".
3. The farthest point: "to the far reaches of the earth".

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Last: what is at the end of a series, in time, in place or in importance. ‘The last day’ and ‘the last days’ designate the end of this age.

• “On the last day”: the resurrection John 6:40John 11:24John 12:48
• “In the last days” Acts 2:172 Timothy 3:1Hebrews 1:2
• “The last will be first” Matthew 20:16Matthew 19:30Mark 9:35
• “The first and the last”: a title Revelation 1:17Revelation 22:13
• “To the end of the earth” Acts 1:8Acts 13:47

How we translate it

“Last” 48 times, also when it compares the end of something with its beginning (“the last {state} of that man becomes worse than the first”, Matthew 12:45). “End” 4 times: “at the end of these days” (Hebrews 1:2), and, of the farthest place, “to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8; 13:47).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• last ×48
• end ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×10
• Mark×5
• Luke×6
• John×7
• Acts×3
• 1 Corinthians×5
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×2
• 2 Peter×2
• 1 John×2
• Jude×1
• Revelation×6

• Matthew 5:26

  Truly I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 12:45

  Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will be also with this evil generation.”

• Matthew 19:30

  But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

• Matthew 20:8

  And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard says to his steward, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last up to the first.’

• Matthew 20:12

  saying, ‘These last ones worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’

• Matthew 20:14

  Take what is yours and go. But I want to give to this last one as I gave also to you.

• Matthew 20:16

  So the last will be first, and the first last.”

• Matthew 27:64

  So order the grave to be made secure until the third day, so that his disciples may not come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

• Mark 9:35

  And sitting down, he called the Twelve and says to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.”

• Mark 10:31

  But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

• Mark 12:6

  He still had one, a beloved son; he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Mark 12:22

  and the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.

• Luke 11:26

  Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that person becomes worse than the first.”

• Luke 12:59

  I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid even the last lepton.”

• Luke 13:30

  And look, there are some last who will be first, and there are some first who will be last.”

• Luke 14:9

  and the one who invited you and him will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the last place.

• Luke 14:10

  But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will have honor before all those reclining at table with you.

• John 6:39

  And this is the will of the one who sent me: that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

• John 6:40

  For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

• John 6:44

  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

• John 6:54

  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

• John 7:37

  Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

• John 11:24

  Martha says to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

• John 12:48

  Whoever rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge: the word that I have spoken, that will judge him on the last day.

• Acts 1:8

  but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

• Acts 2:17

  ‘And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out from my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams;

• Acts 13:47

  For so the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have set you as a light for the nations, that you may be for salvation to the end of the earth.’”

• 1 Corinthians 4:9

  For I think God has displayed us apostles as last, as men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

• 1 Corinthians 15:8

  and last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

• 1 Corinthians 15:26

  The last enemy is being done away with: death.

• 1 Corinthians 15:45

  So also it is written: The first man, Adam, became a living soul; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 15:52

  in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

• 2 Timothy 3:1

  But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

• Hebrews 1:2

  at the end of these days has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also made the ages.

• James 5:3

  Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

• 1 Peter 1:5

  who are being guarded by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

• 1 Peter 1:20

  He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the times for the sake of you,

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus the Messiah, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become for them worse than the first.

• 2 Peter 3:3

  knowing this first, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, walking according to their own desires

• 1 John 2:18

  Children, it is the last hour; and as you heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; from this we know that it is the last hour.

And 12 more times.