UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: conj.

Sense 1: but, instead, on the contrary

Semantic entry: 89.125

Semantic domains: Relations

Subdomains: Contrast

Definition: a marker of more emphatic contrast (as compared with δέ [source selector 000002][c], 89.124: δέ)

Notes: ἀλλά also occurs with μᾶλλον and ἤ in more emphatic phrases marking contrast: ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον δουλευέτωσαν ‘on the contrary, they are to serve (them) even better’ RV TI1 6:2 · LV TI1 6:2 · Read together TI1 6:2; οὐχί, λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀλλ᾽ ἢ διαμερισμόν ‘not (peace), I tell you, but rather division’ RV LUK 12:51 · LV LUK 12:51 · Read together LUK 12:51.

MAT 4:4: RV MAT 4:4 · LV MAT 4:4 · Read together MAT 4:4

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OET-RV MAT 4:4

4 But Yeshua answered, “It’s written in the scriptures that it’s not just food that a person needs to live, but also all of God’s messages.”

OET-LV MAT 4:4

4 But he answering said:
It _has _been _written:
The person not only by bread will _be _living, but by every message going _out through the_mouth of_god.

MAT 5:15: RV MAT 5:15 · LV MAT 5:15 · Read together MAT 5:15

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OET-RV MAT 5:15

15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket—you put it on a lampstand and it lightens up the house.

OET-LV MAT 5:15

15 And _not they _are _lighting a_lamp and are _putting it under the a_basket, but on the lampstand, and it _is _shining for _all the ones in the house.

All 554 recorded passages for this sense

EPH: RV EPH 1:21 · RV EPH 2:19 · RV EPH 4:29 · RV EPH 5:4 · RV EPH 5:15 · RV EPH 5:17–18 · RV EPH 5:27 · RV EPH 5:29 · RV EPH 6:4 · RV EPH 6:6 · RV EPH 6:12 · LV EPH 1:21 · LV EPH 2:19 · LV EPH 4:29 · LV EPH 5:4 · LV EPH 5:15 · LV EPH 5:17–18 · LV EPH 5:27 · LV EPH 5:29 · LV EPH 6:4 · LV EPH 6:6 · LV EPH 6:12 · Read together EPH 1:21 · Read together EPH 2:19 · Read together EPH 4:29 · Read together EPH 5:4 · Read together EPH 5:15 · Read together EPH 5:17–18 · Read together EPH 5:27 · Read together EPH 5:29 · Read together EPH 6:4 · Read together EPH 6:6 · Read together EPH 6:12

COL: RV COL 3:11 · RV COL 3:22 · LV COL 3:11 · LV COL 3:22 · Read together COL 3:11 · Read together COL 3:22

TH2: RV TH2 2:12 · RV TH2 3:8–9 · RV TH2 3:15 · LV TH2 2:12 · LV TH2 3:8–9 · LV TH2 3:15 · Read together TH2 2:12 · Read together TH2 3:8–9 · Read together TH2 3:15

TI2: RV TI2 1:7–9 · RV TI2 1:12 · RV TI2 1:17 · RV TI2 2:9 · RV TI2 2:20 · RV TI2 2:24 · RV TI2 3:9 · RV TI2 4:3 · RV TI2 4:8 · LV TI2 1:7–9 · LV TI2 1:12 · LV TI2 1:17 · LV TI2 2:9 · LV TI2 2:20 · LV TI2 2:24 · LV TI2 3:9 · LV TI2 4:3 · LV TI2 4:8 · Read together TI2 1:7–9 · Read together TI2 1:12 · Read together TI2 1:17 · Read together TI2 2:9 · Read together TI2 2:20 · Read together TI2 2:24 · Read together TI2 3:9 · Read together TI2 4:3 · Read together TI2 4:8

TIT: RV TIT 1:8 · RV TIT 1:15 · RV TIT 2:10 · RV TIT 3:5 · LV TIT 1:8 · LV TIT 1:15 · LV TIT 2:10 · LV TIT 3:5 · Read together TIT 1:8 · Read together TIT 1:15 · Read together TIT 2:10 · Read together TIT 3:5

PHM: RV PHM 1:14 · RV PHM 1:16 · LV PHM 1:14 · LV PHM 1:16 · Read together PHM 1:14 · Read together PHM 1:16

JAM: RV JAM 1:25–26 · RV JAM 2:18 · RV JAM 3:15 · RV JAM 4:11 · LV JAM 1:25–26 · LV JAM 2:18 · LV JAM 3:15 · LV JAM 4:11 · Read together JAM 1:25–26 · Read together JAM 2:18 · Read together JAM 3:15 · Read together JAM 4:11

PE2: RV PE2 1:16 · RV PE2 1:21 · RV PE2 2:4–5 · RV PE2 3:9 · LV PE2 1:16 · LV PE2 1:21 · LV PE2 2:4–5 · LV PE2 3:9 · Read together PE2 1:16 · Read together PE2 1:21 · Read together PE2 2:4–5 · Read together PE2 3:9

JN1: RV JN1 2:2 · RV JN1 2:7 · RV JN1 2:16 · RV JN1 2:19 · RV JN1 2:21 · RV JN1 2:27 · RV JN1 3:18 · RV JN1 4:1 · RV JN1 4:10 · RV JN1 4:18 · RV JN1 5:6 · RV JN1 5:18 · LV JN1 2:2 · LV JN1 2:7 · LV JN1 2:16 · LV JN1 2:19 · LV JN1 2:21 · LV JN1 2:27 · LV JN1 3:18 · LV JN1 4:1 · LV JN1 4:10 · LV JN1 4:18 · LV JN1 5:6 · LV JN1 5:18 · Read together JN1 2:2 · Read together JN1 2:7 · Read together JN1 2:16 · Read together JN1 2:19 · Read together JN1 2:21 · Read together JN1 2:27 · Read together JN1 3:18 · Read together JN1 4:1 · Read together JN1 4:10 · Read together JN1 4:18 · Read together JN1 5:6 · Read together JN1 5:18

JN2: RV JN2 1:1 · RV JN2 1:5 · RV JN2 1:8 · RV JN2 1:12 · LV JN2 1:1 · LV JN2 1:5 · LV JN2 1:8 · LV JN2 1:12 · Read together JN2 1:1 · Read together JN2 1:5 · Read together JN2 1:8 · Read together JN2 1:12

JN3: RV JN3 1:9 · RV JN3 1:11 · RV JN3 1:13 · LV JN3 1:9 · LV JN3 1:11 · LV JN3 1:13 · Read together JN3 1:9 · Read together JN3 1:11 · Read together JN3 1:13

JDE: RV JDE 1:6 · RV JDE 1:9 · LV JDE 1:6 · LV JDE 1:9 · Read together JDE 1:6 · Read together JDE 1:9

REV: RV REV 2:9 · RV REV 3:9 · RV REV 9:5 · RV REV 10:7 · RV REV 10:9 · RV REV 17:12 · LV REV 2:9 · LV REV 3:9 · LV REV 9:5 · LV REV 10:7 · LV REV 10:9 · LV REV 17:12 · Read together REV 2:9 · Read together REV 3:9 · Read together REV 9:5 · Read together REV 10:7 · Read together REV 10:9 · Read together REV 17:12

Sense 2: and

Semantic entry: 89.96

Semantic domains: Relations

Subdomains: Addition

Definition: a marker of a series of coordinate relations which are contrastive with a previously identified event or state

CO2 7:11: RV CO2 7:11 · LV CO2 7:11 · Read together CO2 7:11

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OET-RV CO2 7:11

11 See how this sorrow according to God’s values has produced earnestness in you all, but also eagerness to clear yourselves, resentment, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance. You have proved yourselves innocent in the matter in every area.

OET-LV CO2 7:11

11 For/Because see same thing this which according _to god to _be _sorrowed, how _much it _produced in _you _all earnestness:
but what defense, but what resentment, but what fear, but what longing, but what zeal, but what vengeance.
In everything you _all _demonstrated yourselves pure to _be in _the matter.

Sense 3: and, yet

Semantic entry: 91.2

Semantic domains: Discourse Markers

Subdomains: Markers of Transition

Definition: a marker of transition, with a slightly adversative implication in some contexts, often best left untranslated

Notes: In RV ROM 15:21 · LV ROM 15:21 · Read together ROM 15:21 there is certainly no adversative value in the conjunction ἀλλά; if anything, it would only mark some underlying reason, but again it seems best to leave ἀλλά untranslated and to regard it simply as a transitional marker.

JHN 1:31: RV JHN 1:31 · LV JHN 1:31 · Read together JHN 1:31

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OET-RV JHN 1:31