Strong's Lexicon
G235 — ἀλλά
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G235 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἀλλά |
| Part of Speech: | conjunction |
| Etymology: | neuter plural of G243 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 639 |
| Transliteration: | alla |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | al-lah' |
| Meaning: | 1. (properly) other things 2. (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations) |
| KJV Renderings: | and, but (even), howbeit, indeed, nay, nevertheless, no, notwithstanding, save, therefore, yea, yet |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀλλά, an adversative particle, derived from ἀλλά, neuter of the adjective ἄλλος, which was originally pronounced ἄλλος (cf. Klotz ad Devar. ii., p. 1f), hence properly, other things namely, than those just mentioned. It differs from δέ, as the Latinat andsed fromautem, (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 441f (411)).
I. But. So related to the preceding words that it serves to introduce
1. an opposition to concessions; nevertheless, notwithstanding: Mat 24:6; Mar 13:20; Mar 14:28; Joh 16:7; Joh 16:20; Act 4:17; Act 7:48; Rom 5:14; Rom 10:16; 1Co 4:4; 2Co 7:6; Php 2:27 (ἀλλ’ ὁ Θεός etc.), etc.
2. an objection: Joh 7:27; Rom 10:18; 1Co 15:35; Jas 2:18.
3. an exception: Luk 22:53; Rom 4:2; 1Co 8:7; 1Co 10:23.
4. a restriction: Joh 11:42; Gal 4:8; Mar 14:36.
5. an ascensive transition or gradation, nay rather, yea moreover: Joh 16:2; 2Co 1:9; especially with καί added, Luk 12:7; Luk 16:21; Luk 24:22. ἀλλ’ οὐδέ, but ... not even (German ja nicht einmal): Luk 23:15; Act 19:2; 1Co 3:2 (Rec. οὔτε); cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 157.
6. or forms a transition to the cardinal matter, especially before imperatives: Mat 9:18.; Mar 9:22; Mar 16:7; Luk 7:7; Joh 8:26; Joh 16:4; Act 9:6 (not Rec.); .
7. it is put elliptically: ἀλλ’ ἵνα, i. e. ἀλλά τοῦτο γέγονεν, Mar 14:49; Joh 13:18; Joh 15:25; 1Jn 2:19.
8. after a conditional or concessive protasis it signifies, at the beginning of the apodosis, yet (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 442 (411)): after καί εἰ, 2Co 13:4 (R G); Mar 14:29 R G L (2Ma 8:15); after εἰ καί, Mar 14:29 (T Tr WH); 2Co 4:16; 2Co 5:16; 2Co 11:6; Col 2:5 (2Ma 6:26); after εἰ, 1Co 9:2; Rom 6:5 (1Ma 2:20); after ἐάν, 1Co 4:15; after εἴπερ, 1Co 8:6 (L Tr marginal reading WH brackets ἀλλ’; cf. Klotz ad Devar. ii., p. 93f; Kühner, ii., p. 827, § 535 Anm. 6.
9. after a preceding μέν: Mar 9:13 (T omits; Tr brackets μέν; Act 4:16; Rom 14:20; 1Co 14:17.
10. it is joined to other particles; ἀλλά γέ (Griesbach ἀλλάγε) (twice in the N. T.): yet at least, 1Co 9:2; yet surely (aber freilich), Luk 24:21 (L T Tr WH add καί yea and etc.), cf. Bornemann at the passage. In the more elegant Greek writers these particles are not combined without the interposition of the most emphatic word between them; cf. Bornemann, the passage cited; Klotz ad Devar. ii., pp. 15f, 24f; Ast, Lex. Plato, i., p. 101; (Winer’s Grammar, 444 (413)). ἀλλ’ ἤ (arising from the blending of the two statements οὐδέν ἄλλο ἤ and οὐδέν ἄλλο, ἀλλά) save only, except: 1Co 3:5 (where ἀλλ’ ἤ omitted by G L T Tr WH is spurious); Luk 12:51 (Sir 37:12 Sir 44:10); and after ἀλλά itself, 2Co 1:13 (here Lachmann brackets ἀλλ’ before ἤ); cf. Klotz as above ii., 31ff; Kühner, ii., p. 824f § 535, 6; Winers Grammar, 442 (412); (Buttmann, 374 (320)). ἀλλ’ οὐ but not, yet not: Heb 3:16 (if punctuated παρεπίκραναν; ἀλλ’ οὐ) for ’But why do I ask? Did not all,’ etc.; cf. Bleek at the passage (Winer’s Grammar, 442 (411)). ἀλλ’ οὐχί will he not rather? Luk 17:8.
II. preceded by a negation: but (Latinsed, German sondern);
1. οὐκ (μή) ... ἀλλά: Mat 19:11; Mar 5:39; Joh 7:16; 1Co 1:17; 1Co 7:10; 1Co 7:19 (οὐδέν); 2Co 7:9; 1Ti 5:23 (μηκέτι), etc. By a rhetorical construction οὐκ ... ἀλλά sometimes is logically equivalent to not so much ... as: Mar 9:37 (οὐκ ἐμέ δέχεται, ἀλλά τόν ἀποστείλαντά με); Mat 10:20; Joh 12:44; Act 5:4; 1Co 15:10; 1Th 4:8; by this form of speech the emphasis is laid on the second member; cf. Fritzsche on Mark, p. 773ff; Winers Grammar, § 55, 8 b.; (Buttmann, 356 (306)). οὐ μόνος ... ἀλλά καί not only ... but also: Joh 5:18; Joh 11:52 (ἀλλ’ ἵνα καί, Rom 1:32, and very often. When καί is omitted (as in the Latinnon solum ... sed), the gradation is strengthened: Act 19:26 (Lachmann adds καί); 1Jn 5:6; ἀλλά πολλῷ μᾶλλον, Php 2:12; cf. Fritzsche, the passage cited, p. 786ff; Winers Grammar, 498 (464); (Buttmann, 369f (317)).
2. The negation to which ἀλλά pertains is suppressed, but can easily be supplied upon reflection (Winer’s Grammar, 442 (412)): Mat 11:7-9; Luk 7:24-26 (in each passage, before ἀλλά supply ’you will say you did not go out into the wilderness for this purpose’); Act 19:2 (we have not received the Holy Spirit, but ...); Gal 2:3 (they said not one word in opposition to me, but ...); 2Co 7:11 (where before ἀλλά, repeated six times by anaphora, supply οὐ μόνον with the accusative of the preceding word). It is used in answers to questions having the force of a negation (Winer’s Grammar, 442 (412)): Joh 7:49; Act 15:11; 1Co 10:20. ἀλλά ἵνα (or ἀλλ’ ἵνα, cf. Winers Grammar, 40; Buttmann, 10) elliptical after a negation (Winer’s Grammar, 316f (297); 620 (576); Fritzsche on Matthew, p. 840f): Joh 1:8 (supply ἀλλά ἦλθεν, ἵνα); (ἀλλά τυφλός ἐγένετο (or ἐγεννήθη), ἵνα); Mar 4:22 (ἀλλά τοιοῦτο ἐγένετο, ἵνα). ( The best manuscripts seem to elide the final a before nouns, but not before verbs Scrivener, Plain Introduction, etc., p. 14; but see Dr. Gregory’s full exhibition of the facts in Tdf Proleg., p. 93f, from which it appears that "elision is commonly or almost always omitted before (alpha) ἆ, almost always before (upsilon) u, often before (epsilon) e and (eta) ee, rarely before (omikron) o and (omega) oo, never before (iota) i; and it should be noticed that this coincides with the fact that the familiar words ἐν, ἵνα, ὅτι, οὐ, ὡς, prefer the form ἀλλ’; see also WHs Appendix, p. 146. Cf. Winers Grammar, § 5, 1 a.; Buttmann, p. 10.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἀλλά (and)
Matthew 4:4
- KJV: But he answered and said It is written Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God
- GK: ο δε αποκριθείς είπε γέγραπται ουκ επ΄ άρτω μόνω ζήσεται άνθρωπος αλλ΄ επί παντί ρήματι εκπορευομένω διά στόματος θεού
Matthew 5:15
- KJV: Neither light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house
- GK: ουδέ καίουσι λύχνον και τιθέασιν αυτόν υπό τον μόδιον αλλ΄ επί την λυχνίαν και λάμπει πάσι τοις εν τη οικία
Matthew 5:17
- KJV: Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfil
- GK: μη νομίσητε ότι ήλθον καταλύσαι τον νόμον η τους προφήτας ουκ ήλθον καταλύσαι αλλά πληρώσαι
Matthew 5:39
- KJV: But I say unto you That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also
- GK: εγώ δε λέγω υμίν μη αντιστήναι τω πονηρώ αλλ΄ όστις σε ραπίσει επί την δεξιάν σου σιαγόνα στρέψον αυτώ και την άλλην
Matthew 6:13
- KJV: And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever Amen
- GK: και μη εσενέγκης ημάς εις πειρασμόν αλλά ρύσαι ημάς από του πονηρού ότι σου εστιν η βασιλεία και η δύναμις και η δόξα εις τους αιώνας αμήν
Matthew 6:18
- KJV: That thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly
- GK: όπως μη φανής τοις ανθρώποις νηστεύων αλλά τω πατρί σου τω εν τω κρυπτώ και ο πατήρ σου ο βλέπων εν τω κρυπτώ αποδώσει σοι εν τω φανερώ
Matthew 7:21
- KJV: Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven
- GK: ου πας ο λέγων μοι κύριε κύριε εισελεύσεται εις την βασιλείαν των ουρανών αλλ΄ ο ποιών το θέλημα του πατρός μου του εν ουρανοίς
Matthew 8:4
- KJV: And Jesus saith unto him See thou tell no man but go thy way shew thyself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them
- GK: και λέγει αυτώ ο Ιησούς όρα μηδενί είπης αλλ΄ ύπαγε σεαυτόν δείξον τω ιερεί και προσένεγκε το δώρον ο προσέταξε Μωσής εις μαρτύριον αυτοίς
Matthew 8:8
- KJV: The centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed
- GK: και αποκριθείς ο εκατόνταρχος έφη κύριε ουκ ειμί ικανός ίνα μου υπό την στέγην εισέλθης αλλά μόνον ειπέ λόγον και ιαθήσεται ο παις μου
Matthew 9:12
- KJV: But when Jesus heard he said unto them They that be whole need not a physician but they that are sick
- GK: ο δε Ιησούς ακούσας είπεν αυτοίς ου χρείαν έχουσιν οι ισχύοντες ιατρού αλλ΄ οι κακώς έχοντες
Matthew 9:13
- KJV: But go ye and learn what meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance
- GK: πορευθέντες δε μάθετε τι εστιν έλεον θέλω και ου θυσίαν ου γαρ ήλθον καλέσαι δικαίους αλλά αμαρτωλούς εις μετάνοιαν
Matthew 9:17
- KJV: Neither do men put new wine into old bottles else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved
- GK: ουδέ βάλλουσιν οίνον νέον εις ασκούς παλαιούς ει ρήγνυνται οι ασκοί και ο οίνος εκχείται και οι ασκοί απολούνται αλλά βάλλουσιν οίνον νέον εις ασκούς καινούς και αμφότερα συντηρούνται
Matthew 9:18
- KJV: While he spake these things unto them behold there came a certain ruler and worshipped him saying My daughter is even now dead but come and lay thy hand upon her and she shall live
- GK: ταύτα αυτού λαλούντος αυτοίς ιδού άρχων εις ελθών προσεκύνει αυτώ λέγων ότι η θυγάτηρ μου άρτι ετελεύτησεν αλλά ελθών επίθες την χείρά σου επ΄ αυτήν και ζήσεται
Matthew 9:24
- KJV: He said unto them Give place for the maid is not dead but sleepeth And they laughed him to scorn
- GK: λέγει αυτοίς αναχωρείτε ου γαρ απέθανε το κοράσιον αλλά καθεύδει και κατεγέλων αυτού
Matthew 10:20
- KJV: For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you
- GK: ου γαρ υμείς εστέ οι λαλούντες αλλά το πνεύμα του πατρός υμών το λαλούν εν υμίν
Matthew 10:34
- KJV: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth I came not to send peace but a sword
- GK: μη νομίσητε ότι ήλθον βαλείν ειρήνην επί την γην ουκ ήλθον βαλείν ειρήνην αλλά μάχαιραν
Matthew 11:8
- KJV: But what went ye out for to see A man clothed in soft raiment behold they that wear soft are in kings’ houses
- GK: αλλά τι εξήλθετε ιδείν άνθρωπον εν μαλακοίς ιματίοις ημφιεσμένον ιδού οι τα μαλακά φορούντες εν τοις οίκοις των βασιλείων εισίν
Matthew 11:9
- KJV: But what went ye out for to see A prophet yea I say unto you and more than a prophet
- GK: αλλά τι εξήλθετε ιδείν προφήτην ναι λέγω υμίν και περισσότερον προφήτου
Matthew 13:21
- KJV: Yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended
- GK: ουκ έχει δε ρίζαν εν εαυτώ αλλά πρόσκαιρός εστι γενομένης δε θλίψεως η διωγμού διά τον λόγον ευθύς σκανδαλίζεται
Matthew 15:11
- KJV: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth a man
- GK: ου το εισερχόμενον εις το στόμα κοινοί τον άνθρωπον αλλά το εκπορευόμενον εκ του στόματος τούτο κοινοί τον άνθρωπον
Matthew 16:12
- KJV: Then understood they how that he bade not beware of the leaven of bread but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees
- GK: τότε συνήκαν ότι ουκ είπε προσέχειν από της ζύμης του άρτου αλλ΄ από της διδαχής των Φαρισαίων και Σαδδουκαίων
Matthew 16:17
- KJV: And Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed unto thee but my Father which is in heaven
- GK: και αποκριθείς ο Ιησούς είπεν αυτώ μακάριος ει Σίμων Βαρ Ιωνά ότι σαρξ και αίμα ουκ απεκάλυψέ σοι αλλ΄ ο πατήρ μου ο εν τοις ουρανοίς
Matthew 16:23
- KJV: But he turned and said unto Peter Get thee behind me Satan thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men
- GK: ο δε στραφείς είπε τω Πέτρω ύπαγε οπίσω μου σατανά σκάνδαλόν μου ει ότι ου φρονείς τα του θεού αλλά τα των ανθρώπων
Matthew 17:12
- KJV: But I say unto you That Elias is come already and they knew him not but have done unto him whatsoever they listed Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them
- GK: λέγω δε υμίν ότι Ηλίας ήδη ήλθε και ουκ επέγνωσαν αυτόν αλλ΄ εποίησαν εν αυτώ οσα ηθέλησαν ούτω και ο υιός του ανθρώπου μέλλει πάσχειν υπ΄ αυτών
Matthew 18:22
- KJV: Jesus saith unto him I say not unto thee Until seven times but Until seventy times seven
- GK: λέγει αυτώ ο Ιησούς ου λέγω σοι εως επτάκις αλλ΄ έως εβδομηκοντάκις επτά
Matthew 18:30
- KJV: And he would not but went and cast him into prison till he should pay the debt
- GK: ο δε ουκ ήθελεν αλλά απελθών έβαλεν αυτόν εις φυλακήν εώς ου αποδώ το οφειλόμενον
Matthew 19:6
- KJV: Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder
- GK: ώστε ουκέτι εισί δύο αλλά σαρξ μία ο ουν ο θεός συνέζευξεν άνθρωπος μη χωριζέτω
Matthew 19:11
- KJV: But he said unto them All cannot receive this saying save to whom it is given
- GK: ο δε είπεν αυτοίς ου πάντες χωρούσι τον λόγον τούτον αλλ΄ οις δέδοται
Matthew 20:23
- KJV: And he saith unto them Ye shall drink indeed of my cup and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give but for whom it is prepared of my Father
- GK: και λέγει αυτοίς το μεν ποτήριόν μου πίεσθε και το βάπτισμα ο εγώ βαπτίζομαι βαπτισθήσεσθε το δε καθίσαι εκ δεξιών μου και εξ ευωνύμων μου ουκ έστιν εμόν δούναι αλλ΄ οις ητοίμασται υπο του πατρός μου
Matthew 20:26
- KJV: But it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be great among you let him be your minister
- GK: ουχ ούτως δε έσται εν υμίν αλλ΄ ος εάν θέλη εν υμίν μέγας γενέσθαι έσται υμών διάκονος