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Hitherto
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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hith´ẽr - too (to this): Used of both place and time. It is the translation of various words and phrases:
(1) Of place , ‛adh hălōm ( 2 Samuel 7:18 , "Thou hast brought me hitherto," the Revised Version (British and American) "thus far"; 1 Chronicles 17:16; perhaps 1 Samuel 7:12 , ‛adh hēnnāh , "Hitherto hath Yahweh helped us" (in connection with the setting up of the stone Ebenezer )) belongs to this head; hēnnāh is properly an adverb of place; it might always be rendered "thus far."
(2) Of time , ‛adh kōh , "unto this" ( Exodus 7:16 , "Hitherto thou hast not hearkened"; Joshua 17:14 , "Hitherto Yahweh hath blessed me"); mē'āz , "from then" (2 Samuel 15:34 , the Revised Version (British and American) "in time past"); hāle'āh , "beyond," etc. (Isaiah 18:7 , "terrible from their beginning hitherto," the Revised Version (British and American) "onward"); ‛adh kāh , Aramaic (Daniel 7:28 , the Revised Version (British and American) "here," margin "hitherto"); ‛adh hēnnāh , "unto here" (Judges 16:13; 1 Samuel 1:16; Psalm 71:17 , etc.); áchri toú deúro (Romans 1:13 , "was let (the Revised Version (British and American) "hindered") hitherto"); héōs árti , "until now" (John 5:17 , "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work" the Revised Version (British and American) "even until now," that is, "on the Sabbath as well as on other days', and I do as He does"; John 16:24 , "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive," that is "up till now"; "now ask in my name and ye shall receive"); oúpō , "not yet" (1 Corinthians 3:2 , "Hitherto ye were not able to bear it," the Revised Version (British and American) "not yet").
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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Hitherto'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/h/hitherto.html. 1915.
