Quick Definition
from of old, long since
Strong's Definition
long ago, for a long while
Derivation: from G1537 (ἐκ) and G3819 (πάλαι);
KJV Usage: of a long time, of old
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἔκπαλαι, adverb (from ἐκ and πάλαι, formed like ἐκτοτε (cf. Winers Grammar, 24 (23); 422 (393); Buttmann, 321 (275))), from of old; of a long time: 2Pe_2:3; 2Pe_3:5. (A later Greek word, from Philo down; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 45ff.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἔκπαλαι ekpalai 2x
of old, long since, 2Pe_2:3 ; 2Pe_3:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἔκ -παλαι ,
adv.
(of a class of compound adverbs common in late Gk .; v. Mayor on 2 Pe, l.c .),
for a long time, from of old: 2Pe_2:3 ; 2Pe_3:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἔκπαλαι [page 197]
This late word (for the form, see Proleg. p. 99), which in the NT is confined to 2Pe_2:3 ; 2Pe_3:5 , occurs in P Oxy VI. 938 .3 (iii/iv A.D.) ἔκπαλαι ἐπισταλεὶς δώδεκα σαργάνας χόρτου ἐκεῖ ἀποστεῖλαι , although you had been long ago instructed to send twelve baskets of hay thither (Edd.) : cf. the fragmentary OGIS 584 .5 (ii/A.D.) δι᾽ ὧν ἔκπαλαι αὐτὴν ( sc. τὴν πατρίδα ) εὐεργέ [τησεν . Ἔκτοτε is found in P Oxy VIII. 1119 .28 (A.D. 254) ἔκτοτε μαθ̣[ὼν ὑπέστ ]η̣ν τὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν λειτουργίαν , thereafter on learning this I undertook the burden on their behalf : cf. ib. III. 486 .9 (A.D. 131).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἔκ-παλαι
adv. (of a class of compound adverbs common in late Gk.; see Mayor on 2 Pe, l.with),
for a long time, from of old: 2Pe.2:3 3:5.†
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