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Strong's G3693 ὄπισθεν (opisthen)

Opisthen means “after” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3693 — kecalon (“Chesalon”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3693
Language Greek
Linked Usages 43
Books 21

Strong's G3693 Quick Answer

Strong's G3693 ὄπισθεν (opisthen) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. opisthen (op'-is-then) adv. 1. from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time) [from opis (regard] It has 43 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include behind, before, lord, after, and following. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
opisthen (op'-is-then) adv. 1. from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time) [from opis (regard]
Usage
43 linked usages
Books
21 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
behind, before, lord, after, and following

Meaning and Definition

opisthen (op'-is-then) adv. 1. from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time) [from opis (regard] KJV: after, backside, behind Root(s): G3700

Original Word
ὄπισθεν
Transliteration
opisthen
Derivation
Root: ὀπτάνομαι R1: 3700
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3693. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

after

Usage: ὄπισθεν adv. of place, [in LXX chiefly for אָחוֹר, אַחַר ;] behind, after: Mat.9:20, Mrk.5:27, Luk.8:44, Rev.4:6 5:1. As prep. with genitive: Mat.15:23, Luk.23:26, Rev.1:10 (WH, mg.).† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

behind before lord after following went said people men came thee god

How Strong's G3693 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 31 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3693 (ὄπισθεν) appears 37 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3693 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3693 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 9:20 KJV

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Matthew 15:23 KJV

But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Mark 5:27 KJV

When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

Strong's G3693 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

31 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 18:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said, I will return and come to thee according to this period seasonably, and Sarah thy wife shall have a son; and Sarah heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.

Exodus 14:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And the angel of God that went before the camp of the children of Israel removed and went behind, and the pillar of the cloud also removed from before them and stood behind them.

Joshua 6:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterward the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

Strong's G3693 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 4:16 Septuagint / Brenton

This done, Judas returned again with his host from pursuing them,

1 Maccabees 5:43 Septuagint / Brenton

So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.

1 Maccabees 9:16 Septuagint / Brenton

But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:

Usage Excerpts

First 43 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3693.

Genesis 18:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, I will return and come to thee according to this period seasonably, and Sarah thy wife shall have a son; and Sarah heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.
Exodus 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of God that went before the camp of the children of Israel removed and went behind, and the pillar of the cloud also removed from before them and stood behind them.
Joshua 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterward the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
Ruth 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following thee; for whithersoever thou goest, I will go, and wheresoever thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Ruth 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not even a little in the field.
1 Kingdoms 6:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now take wood and make a new wagon, and take two cows, that have calved for the first time, without their calves; and do ye yoke the cows to the wagon, and lead away the calves from behind them home.
1 Kingdoms 12:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have indeed wrought all this iniquity; only turn not from following the Lord, and serve the Lord with all your heart.
1 Kingdoms 14:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines departed to their place.
1 Kingdoms 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have repented that I have made Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not kept my word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.
1 Kingdoms 24:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when Saul returned from pursuing after the Philistines, that it was reported to him, saying, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
2 Kingdoms 2:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abner said to him, Turn thou to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold for thyself on one of the young men, and take to thyself his armor: but Asahel would not turn back from following him.
2 Kingdoms 2:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abner called Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour perpetually? knowest thou not that it will be bitter at last? How long then wilt thou refuse to tell the people to turn from following our brethren?
2 Kingdoms 2:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab returned from following Abner, and he assembled all the people, and there were missing of the people of David, nineteen men, and Asahel.
2 Kingdoms 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him from that which was opposed in front and from behind, and he chose out some of all the young men of Israel, and they set themselves in array against Syria.
2 Kingdoms 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Station Uriah in front of the severe part of the fight, and retreat from behind him, so shall he be wounded and die.
2 Kingdoms 13:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Absalom escaped: and the young man the watchman lifted up his eyes, and looked; and, behold, much people went in the way behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent: and the watchman came and told the king, and said, I have seen men by the way of Horonaim, by the side of the mountain.
2 Kingdoms 20:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the men of Israel went up from following David after Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah adhered to their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.
3 Kingdoms 16:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I raise up enemies after Baasha, and after his house; and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
4 Kingdoms 10:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless Jehu departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin: these were the golden heifers in Bethel and in Dan.
4 Kingdoms 18:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he clove to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.
2 Chronicles 13:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now Jeroboam had caused an ambush to come round upon him from behind: and he himself was before Judah, and the ambush behind.
2 Chronicles 13:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Judah looked back, and, behold, the battle was against them before and behind: and they cried to the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 34:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Josiah removed all the abominations out of the whole land which belonged to the children of Israel, and caused all that were found in Jerusalem and in Israel, to serve the Lord their God all his days: he departed not from following the Lord God of his fathers.
Isaiah 59:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
Jeremiah 7:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;
Jeremiah 31:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Heshbon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;
Jeremiah 39:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will make with them an everlasting covenant, which I will by no means turn away from them, and I will put my fear into their heart, that they may not depart from me.
Ezekiel 2:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.
Daniel 3:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So let our sacrifice be in thy sight this day, And grant that we may wholly go after thee: For they shall not be confounded that put their trust in thee.
Hosea 1:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
Joel 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before them is a consuming fire, and behind them is a flame kindled: the land before them is as a paradise of delight, and behind them a desolate plain: and there shall none of them escape.
Matthew 9:20 New Testament, KJV
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
Matthew 15:23 New Testament, KJV
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Mark 5:27 New Testament, KJV
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
Luke 8:44 New Testament, KJV
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
Luke 23:26 New Testament, KJV
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Revelation 4:6 New Testament, KJV
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Revelation 5:1 New Testament, KJV
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
1 Maccabees 4:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
This done, Judas returned again with his host from pursuing them,
1 Maccabees 5:43 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.
1 Maccabees 9:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:
1 Maccabees 13:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Simon also built a monument upon the sepulcher of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Beware therefore that ye in nowise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshiping them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3693, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3693 FAQ

What does opisthen (ὄπισθεν) mean?

Opisthen (Strong's G3693) is a Greek word most simply glossed "after". opisthen (op'-is-then) adv. 1. from the rear (as a secure aspect), i.e. at the back (adverb and preposition of place or time) [from opis (regard]

How many times is opisthen (ὄπισθεν) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 43 linked usages for Strong's G3693 across 21 books.

Where can I study opisthen (ὄπισθεν) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3693 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate opisthen (ὄπισθεν)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as behind, before, lord, after, following, and went. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3693 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 31 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3693, with linked reader references where each row is available.