Quick Definition
ἀκμήν n.f. even now
Strong's Definition
adverbially, just now, i.e. still
Derivation: accusative case of a noun ("acme") akin to (a point) and meaning the same;
KJV Usage: yet
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
advb. | ἀκμάζω
67.128 · Time · Duration of Time with Reference to Some Point of Time: Until, Delay, Still, From
still, yet extension of time up to and beyond an expected point
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀκμήν akmēn 1x
pr. the point of a weapon; point of time: ἀκμήν, for κατἀκμήν, adv., yet, still, even now, Mt. 15:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀκμήν, acc. of ἀκμή, a point, used as adv., at the present point of time, even now, even yet: Mt 15:16.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀκμήν. In OG/S 201 (vi/A.D.) οὐκ ἀπῆλθον ὅλως ὀπίσω τῶν ἄλλων βασιλέων, ἀλλὰ ἀκμὴν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν, the adverb seems to have the meaning ‘‘valde, magnopere, longe,” in accordance with the original meaning of ἀκμή (see DittenCf. νὼ 3261 (i/A.D.) παραλαβὼν τοὺς ἐν ἀκμᾶι τῶν πολιτᾶν : similarly P Oxy IIT. 473° (A.D. 138-60) παρὰ τὴν πρώτην ἀκμήν. A compound adjective ἴσακμον, “*with an even edge,”’ is applied to a weaver’s instrument in P Oxy VII. 103514 (A.D. 143). See on the later history of this word (MGr ἀκόμα = ἔτι) K, Krumbacher’s important article in Kuhn’s Zeitschrift xxvii. pp. 498-521. berger’s note). The noun was in Hellenistic use, according to Moeris: “ὡραία γάμων ᾽Αττ., ἐν ἀκμῇ yapou" HA.” the same grammarian in favour of ἔτι : so also Phrynichus (Rutherford VP, p. 203). In the NT, however, except for Mt 152%, all writers conspired to Atticize here: ἔτι was clearly quite good ‘‘ bad Greek,” as well as ἀκμήν ! The adverbial accus. was banned by
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀκμήν (akmēn) — still. ἀκμήν, accusative of ἀκμή, used as adverb, as yet, still, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ σκευοφόρα.. ἀκμὴν διέβαινε were just crossing the river, [NT+5th c.BC+]
II. ={ἀκμαίως}, [Refs]: perhaps, = much, [Refs]