πέρυσι (from πέρας), adverb, last year; the year just past: ἀπό πέρυσι, for a year past, a year ago (Winer's Grammar, 422 (393)), 2Co_8:10; 2Co_9:2. ((Simonides), Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, Lucian).

πέρυσι perysi 2x last year, a year ago, 2Co_8:10 ; 2Co_9:2

† πέρυσι , adv. ( < πέρας ), last year, a year ago: ἀπὸ Papyri (as in Papyri v. Deiss., BS , 221; LAE , 70), 2Co_8:10 ; 2Co_9:2 .†

πέρυσι [page 510] For the phrase ἀπὸ πέρυσι , last year, cf. BGU II. 531 ii. 1 (ii/A.D.) εἰσὶν ἐν τῶι κεραμεῖ ἀπὸ πέρυσι (δραχμαὶ ) ῑβ̄ , P Oxy I. 114 .12 (ii/iii A.D.) ἀπὸ Τῦβι πέρυσι : see Deissmann BS p. 221. Πέρυσι alone is seen in P Petr II. 4 (11) .2 (B.C. 255 4) ἣν ἐσκάψαμεν πέρυσι , which we dug last year, P Giss I. 69 .4 (A.D. 118 9) καὶ γὰρ πέρυσι ἐπὶ τὴν παράλημψιν τῶν ἱματίων αὐτὸν παρά σοι κατέλειψα καὶ νῦν δὲ . . ., P Oxy III. 488 .31 (ii/iii A.D.) καὶ γὰρ καὶ πέρυσι πρὸς τούτοις ἕτερά με κακῶς παρέγραψεν , for last year also he made other false entries in his register concerning me besides this (Edd.), and P Fay 135 .15 (iv/A.D.) χρεωστῖς γὰρ καὶ τοῦ πέρυσι λαχανοσπέρμου ἀρτάβην μίαν ἡμίσι̣α̣ν̣, for you have been using since last year one and a half artabae of vegetable seed (Edd.). The foregoing exx. appear to support the rendering last year, rather than a year ago or for a year past in 2Co_8:10 ; 2Co_9:2 (cf. AV, RV). For the bearing of this upon the date of the Ep., see Lake Earlier Epistles of St. Paul , p. 141 f. For the adj. περυσινοίς cf. PSI VI. 560 .8 (B.C. 257 6?) ἐμπυ ]ρ [ισ ]μὸν τῆς περυσινῆς ( sc. ξυλοκοπίας ), burning of last year s (cut wood), and Chrest. I. 167 .18 (B.C. 131) εἰ [ς ] πλήρωσιν τῆς περυσινῆς [ἐγ ]λήψεως ( collecting ). MGr πέρυσι of last year.

πέρυσι "a year ago, last year", Ar. , etc.; ἡ π. κωμῳδία our "last year's" comedy, id=Ar. ; νῦν τε καὶ π. Xen.

πέρυσι adv. (πέρας), last year, a year ago: ἀπὸ π. (as in π. see Deiss., BS, 221; LAE, 70), 2Co.8:10 9:2.† (AS)