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)