ἔσχατοςéschatos

last, utmost, extreme

Greek (New Testament) · G2078

Meanings

(a) of place: of the lowest or least honoured place, Luke 14:9, Luke 14:10; τ. ἔσχατον, with genitive part., Acts 1:8, Acts 13:47

(b) of time: Matthew 20:12, Matthew 20:14, Mark 12:6, Mark 12:22, opposed to πρῶτος, Matthew 20:8, 1 Corinthians 15:45, Revelation 2:19, and elsewhere; τὰ ἔ. καὶ τ. πρῶτα, Matthew 12:45, Luke 11:26, 2 Peter 2:20; of the Eternal, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔ., Revelation 1:17, Revelation 2:8, Revelation 22:13; in phrases relating to the Messianic age and the consummation of the Kingdom of God: ἐπ’ ἐσχάτου (-ων) τ. ἡμερῶν, Hebrews 1:2, 2 Peter 3:3; τ. χρόνων, 1 Peter 1:20; ἔ. ὥρα, 1 John 2:18; ἐπ’ ἐ. χόνου, Jude 1:18; ἐν ἐ. ἡμέραις, Acts 2:17, James 5:3, 2 Timothy 3:1; neuter, ἔσχατον, as adverb, Mark 12:22, 1 Corinthians 15:8

(c) of rank: Mark 9:35, 1 Corinthians 4:9

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 52 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 5:26 And if that happens, you surely won’t be free again until you have paid the last penny.
  • Matthew 12:45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation.”
  • Matthew 19:30 But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.
  • Matthew 20:8 “That evening he told the foreman to call the workers in and pay them, beginning with the last workers first.
  • Matthew 20:12 ‘Those people worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as you paid us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
  • Matthew 20:14 Take your money and go. I wanted to pay this last worker the same as you.
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.