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Strong's G5504 χθές (chthes)

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

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5504 — cachar (“merchandise”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5504
Language Greek
Linked Usages 38
Books 18

Strong's G5504 Quick Answer

Strong's G5504 χθές (chthes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. chthes (khthes') adv. 1. "yesterday" 2. (by extension) in time past or hitherto It has 38 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include yesterday. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
chthes (khthes') adv. 1. "yesterday" 2. (by extension) in time past or hitherto
Usage
38 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
yesterday

Meaning and Definition

chthes (khthes') adv. 1. "yesterday" 2. (by extension) in time past or hitherto [of uncertain derivation] KJV: yesterday

Original Word
χθές
Transliteration
chthes
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5504. 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)

yesterday

Usage: ἐχθές (Rec. χθές), adv., [in LXX for תְּמוֹל, etc. ;] yesterday: Jhn.4:52, Act.7:28, Heb.13:8 (on the form, see Rutherford, NPhr., 370 f.).† ἐχθές, adverb ={χθές}, yesterday, ( 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 175, “Th.” 616, etc.; ἀπ᾽ ἐ. “Anthologia Graeca” 11.35 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus); μέσφα τό γ᾽ ἐ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.144 ); οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀ. today or yesterday, ( 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 456; οὐκ ἐ.

οὐδὲ πρῴην 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58 ); ἐ. καὶ τρίτης [ἡμέρας] ( LXX.Ruth.2.11, compare 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 10.7. (ἐχθές is commoner than χθές) in Comedy texts and LXX, is the only form used in “NT”, and frequently in papyri of all periods, ( “PSI” 4.442.21 (3rd c.BC), etc.)) (AS)

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How Strong's G5504 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chthes, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Yesterday John 4:52

How Strong's G5504 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. 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 G5504 (χθές) appears 35 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5504 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 G5504 in the New Testament

3 indexed usages in New Testament.

John 4:52 KJV

Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

Acts 7:28 KJV

Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?

Hebrews 13:8 KJV

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Strong's G5504 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

31 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 19:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.

Genesis 31:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as before.

Genesis 31:5 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.

Strong's G5504 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 9:44 Septuagint / Brenton

Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us today, as in time past:

Wisdom of Sirach 38:22 Septuagint / Brenton

Remember his judgment: for thine also shall be so; Yesterday for me, and today for thee.

Daniel 1:15 Septuagint / Brenton

And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.

Usage Excerpts

First 38 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5504.

Genesis 19:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.
Genesis 31:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as before.
Genesis 31:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to them, I see the face of your father, that it is not toward me as before, but the God of my father was with me.
Genesis 31:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now my hand has power to hurt thee; but the God of thy father spoke to me yesterday, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not evil words to Jacob.
Genesis 31:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Exodus 2:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? wilt thou slay me as thou yesterday slewest the Egyptian? Then Moses was alarmed, and said, If it be thus, this matter has become known.
Exodus 4:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that thou hast begun to speak to thy servant: I am weak in speech, and slow tongued.
Exodus 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall no longer give straw to the people for brickmaking as yesterday and the third day; but let them go themselves, and collect straw for themselves.
Exodus 5:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the accountants of the race of the children of Israel, who were set over them by the masters of Pharaoh, were scourged, and questioned, men saying, Why have ye not fulfilled your rates of brickwork as yesterday and the third day, today also?
Exodus 21:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Exodus 21:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Deuteronomy 4:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that the slayer might flee thither, who should have slain his neighbor unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
Deuteronomy 19:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer, who shall flee thither, and shall live, whosoever shall have smitten his neighbor ignorantly, whereas he hated him not in times past.
Deuteronomy 19:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the slayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he hated him not in time past.
Joshua 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But let there be a distance between you and it; ye shall stand as much as two thousand cubits from it. Do not draw nigh to it, that ye may know the way which ye are to go; for ye have not gone the way before.
Joshua 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
Ruth 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Boaz answered and said to her, It has fully been told me how thou hast dealt with thy mother-in-law after the death of thy husband; and how thou didst leave thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and camest to a people whom thou knewest not before.
1 Kingdoms 4:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Philistines feared, and said, These are the Gods that are come to them into the camp.
1 Kingdoms 10:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all that had known him before came, and saw, and, behold, he was in the midst of the prophets: and the people said every one to his neighbor, What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Kingdoms 14:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servants who had been before with the Philistines, who had gone up to the army, turned themselves also to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1 Kingdoms 19:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jonathan called David, and told him all these words; and Jonathan brought David in to Saul, and he was before him as in former times.
1 Kingdoms 20:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass on the morrow, on the second day of the month, that the place of David was empty; and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has not the son of Jesse attended both yesterday and today at the table?
1 Kingdoms 21:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David answered the priest, and said to him, Yea, we have been kept from women for three days: when I came forth for the journey all the young men were purified; but this expedition is unclean, wherefore it shall be sanctified this day because of my weapons.
2 Kingdoms 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abner spoke to the elders of Israel, saying, In former days ye sought David to reign over you;
2 Kingdoms 5:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And heretofore Saul being king over us, thou wast he that didst lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for a leader to my people Israel.
2 Kingdoms 15:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas thou camest yesterday, shall I today cause thee to travel with us, and shalt thou thus change thy place? thou didst come forth yesterday, and today shall I set thee in motion to go along with us? I indeed will go whithersoever I may go: return then, and cause thy brethren to return with thee, and may the Lord deal mercifully and truly with thee.
4 Kingdoms 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Surely, I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will recompense him in this portion, saith the Lord. Now then, I pray thee, take him up and cast him into the portion, according to the word of the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 13:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord gave deliverance to Israel, and they escaped from under the hand of Syria: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as heretofore.
1 Chronicles 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And heretofore when Saul was king, thou wast he that led Israel in and out, and the Lord of Israel said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be for a ruler over Israel.
Job 30:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
One is childless in want and famine, Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
Psalms 89:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a thousand years in thy sight are As the yesterday which is past, And as a watch in the night.
John 4:52 New Testament, KJV
Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Acts 7:28 New Testament, KJV
Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
Hebrews 13:8 New Testament, KJV
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
1 Maccabees 9:44 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us today, as in time past:
Wisdom of Sirach 38:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Remember his judgment: for thine also shall be so; Yesterday for me, and today for thee.
Daniel 1:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and stouter in flesh than the children that fed at the king’s table.
Book 151 1:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5504, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5504 FAQ

What does chthes (χθές) mean?

Chthes (Strong's G5504) is a Greek word most simply glossed "yesterday". chthes (khthes') adv. 1. "yesterday" 2. (by extension) in time past or hitherto

How many times is chthes (χθές) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 38 linked usages for Strong's G5504 across 18 books.

Where can I study chthes (χθές) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5504 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate chthes (χθές)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as yesterday. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5504 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 31 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5504, with linked reader references where each row is available.