ἐπεί: Difference between revisions

|txtha=(from [[temporal]] [[ἐπί]] and εἰ, [[literally]], [[thereupon]] [[when]]; [[Curtius]], Erläut. etc., p. 182; cf. Etym. Magn. 356,7), [[conjunction]] (Latin cum), [[when]], [[since]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53,1); used:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of [[time]], [[after]]; so [[once]] in the N. T.: L T Tr [[text]] WH [[text]] [[ἐπειδή]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of [[cause]], etc., [[since]], [[seeing]] [[that]], [[because]]: T Tr WH); [[ἐπεί]] [[οὖν]] [[since]] [[then]], [[ἐπεί]] and the [[proposition]] depending [[upon]] it [[some]] [[such]] [[phrase]] as if it is (or were) [[otherwise]]; so [[that]] the [[particle]], [[although]] retaining the [[force]] of [[since]], is [[yet]] to be rendered [[otherwise]], [[else]], or for [[then]] (German sonst); so in [[ἐπεί]] [[ἄρα]], Winer's Grammar, § 53,8a.); [[ἐπεί]] [[alone]] [[before]] a [[question]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, 480 (417); Buttmann, 233 (200)): Matthiae, § 618; (Buttmann, § 149,5).