Greek word · G4373

προσφάτως

prosphatōs

recently

Recently, lately, freshly. The related adjective prosphatos means 'fresh, new, recent'. Hebrews 10:20 calls Christ's way 'new and living'.

Appears once in the Greek New Testament.

What it means

προσφάτως

adv. (see: πρόσφατος), [in LXX: Deuteronomy 24:5 (חָדָשׁ), Judith 4:3, 5, Ezekiel 11:3, 2Ma.14:36 2Mac 14:16 ;]

recently: Acts 18:2 (see MM, Exp., xxi).†

(AS)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Range of meaning: Recently, lately, freshly. The related adjective prosphatos means 'fresh, new, recent'. Hebrews 10:20 calls Christ's way 'new and living'.
Against the English: 'Recently' (BSB, WEB) and 'lately' (KJV, YLT) are both accurate.
Used elsewhere in the period: It appears only here in the New Testament. The adjective occurs in the Greek Old Testament (for example Deut 32:17, 'new' gods) and is common in later Greek for anything recent.

Acts · 1

Acts 18:2 προσφάτως recently

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

Here: 'Freshly, just recently.' It appears only here in the New Testament. The point is that the move from Rome was new: the couple were refugees only lately settled in Corinth.

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