ὀπίσω opísō

Meaning

to the back, i.e. aback (as adverb or preposition of time or place; or as noun)

In the King James Version: after, back(-ward), (+ get) behind, + follow

Derivation: from the same as G3693 (ὄπισθεν) with enclitic of direction;

Where it is used

• Matthew 3:11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
• Matthew 4:10 “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus told him. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
• Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
• Matthew 10:38 and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
• Matthew 16:23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
• Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• Matthew 24:18 And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
• Mark 1:7 And he proclaimed: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
• Mark 1:17 “Come, follow Me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
• Mark 1:20 Immediately Jesus called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed Him.
• Mark 8:33 But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
• Mark 8:34 Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• Mark 13:16 And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
• Luke 4:8 But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
• Luke 7:38 As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.
• Luke 9:23 Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
• Luke 9:62 Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
• Luke 14:27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
• Luke 17:31 On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
• Luke 19:14 But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
• Luke 21:8 Jesus answered, “See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.
• John 1:15 John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
• John 1:27 He is the One who comes after me, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
• John 1:30 This is He of whom I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’
• John 6:66 From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
• John 12:19 Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
• John 18:6 When Jesus said, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
• John 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. But she did not recognize that it was Jesus.
• Acts 5:37 After him, Judas the Galilean appeared in the days of the census and drew away people after him. He too perished, and all his followers were scattered.
• Acts 20:30 Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
• Philippians 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
• 1 Timothy 5:15 For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
• 2 Peter 2:10 Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
• Jude 1:7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
• Revelation 1:10 On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
• Revelation 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
• Revelation 13:3 One of the heads of the beast appeared to have been mortally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world marveled and followed the beast.