χθές
chthes · yesterday
Greek word · Strong’s number G5504 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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chthes (χθές) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “yesterday”.
How to say it
chthes
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
- The day that passed, before today.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
Where it appears
- John 4:52
So he asked them the hour when he began to get better. So they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
- Acts 7:28
You do not want to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’
- Hebrews 13:8
Jesus the Messiah is the same yesterday and today and forever.