= χθές, yesterday, Ar. Nu. 175, Th. 616, etc.; ἀπʼ ἐ. AP 11.35 (Phld.); μέσφα τό γʼ ἐ. Theoc. 2.144; οὐ γάρ τι νῦν γε κἀ. today or yesterday, S. Ant. 456; οὐκ ἐ. οὐδὲ πρῴην Antipho Fr. 58; ἐ. καὶ τρίτης [ἡμέρας] LXX Ru. 2.11, cf. M.Ant. 10.7. (ἐχθές is commoner than χθές in Com. and LXX, is the only form used in NT, and freq. in papyri of all periods, PSI 4.442.21 (iii B.C.), etc.; cf. χθές.)
The corpus record
ἐχθές
echthes
yesterday, yesterday
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Where it lives
- Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
- Regnorum I 6 · 3.24/10k
- Exodus 6 · 2.53/10k
- Regnorum II 4 · 2.47/10k
- Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
- Genesis 5 · 1.66/10k
- Josue (cod. Vat.) 2 · 1.5/10k
- Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
- Deuteronomium 3 · 1.34/10k
- Regnorum IV 2 · 1.16/10k
- Job 1 · 0.75/10k
- Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
yesterday, yesterday
In the wild
- κἀχθές · kachthes Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- κἀχθές · kachthes Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- ἐχθὲς · echthes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.7.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1653)
- ἐχθὲς · echthes Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.48.2 (DIORISIS sentence 498)
- ἐχθὲς · echthes New Testament, Acts 7.28 (DIORISIS sentence 197)
- ἐχθὲς · echthes New Testament, Hebrews 13.8 (DIORISIS sentence 253)
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.