Word study

Further

2 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “further”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “further” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • עוֹד ôda going round, continuancetranslated this way 9 times of its 390 uses · Strong’s H5750Adverb  ·  Translated: longer 80, still 63, again 52, more 38

    Numbers 32:14 Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

    1 Samuel 23:22 Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

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  • פָּשָׂה pâsâhspreadtranslated this way 4 times of its 18 uses · Strong’s H6581Verb  ·  Translated: spread 14, spreads further 2, spreads any further 1, spread further 1

    Leviticus 13:7 But if the rash spreads further on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.

    Leviticus 13:22 If it spreads any further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • οὐκέτι oukétino longer, no moretranslated this way 3 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s G3765Adverb  ·  Translated: longer 22, more 4, further 3, no 1

    Matthew 22:46 No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

    Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.

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  • πλείων pleíōnmore, greatertranslated this way 2 times of its 52 uses · Strong’s G4119Adjective  ·  Translated: more 19, greater 7, many 5, most 5

    Acts 4:17 But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them not to speak to anyone in this name.”

    Acts 24:4 But in order not to delay you any further, I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.