opisō · behind, after

What it means

opisō (ὀπίσω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “behind, after”.

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. Behind, backward.
2. To walk behind someone, follow them.

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

How it is translated

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

• after ×23
• behind ×6
• back ×5
• around ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Mark×6
• Luke×7
• John×7
• Acts×2
• Philippians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 3:11

  I immerse you in water for change of mind, but the one who comes after me is stronger than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

• Matthew 4:19

  And he says to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of people.”

• Matthew 10:38

  And whoever does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

• Matthew 16:23

  But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not thinking the things of God but the things of men.”

• Matthew 16:24

  Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

• Matthew 24:18

  and let the one in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

• Mark 1:7

  And he was proclaiming, saying, “After me comes the one stronger than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.

• Mark 1:17

  And Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you become fishers of people.”

• Mark 1:20

  And at once he called them; and leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, they went away after him.

• Mark 8:33

  But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter and says, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not thinking the things of God but the things of men.”

• Mark 8:34

  And summoning the crowd with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

• Mark 13:16

  and let the one in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

• Luke 7:38

  and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she was wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.

• Luke 9:23

  And he was saying to all, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said, “No one who puts his hand to a plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

• Luke 14:27

  Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

• Luke 17:31

  On that day, the one who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, must not come down to take them; and likewise the one in the field must not turn back to the things behind.

• Luke 19:14

  But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

• Luke 21:8

  And he said, “See that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come near.’ Do not go after them.

• John 1:15

  John testifies about him and has cried out, saying, “This was the one I spoke of: ‘He who comes after me has come to be ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”

• John 1:27

  the one who comes after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.”

• John 1:30

  This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who has come to be ahead of me, because he existed before me.’

• John 6:66

  From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.

• John 12:19

  So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”

• John 18:6

  So when he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.

• John 20:14

  Having said this, she turned around, and she sees Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus.

• Acts 5:37

  After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away people after him; he too perished, and all who obeyed him were scattered.

• Acts 20:30

  and from among yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.

• Philippians 3:13

  Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

• 1 Timothy 5:15

  for some have already turned aside after Satan.

• 2 Peter 2:10

  and especially those who walk after the flesh in defiling desire and despise authority. Bold, arrogant, they do not tremble when they blaspheme the glories,

• Jude 1:7

  just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, which in the same way as these indulged in sexual immorality and went after other flesh, are set forth as an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

• Revelation 1:10

  I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like that of a trumpet,

• Revelation 12:15

  And the serpent threw out of his mouth water like a river after the woman, so that he might make her swept away by the river.

• Revelation 13:3

  And one of its heads was as if slaughtered to death, and its death wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast.