Limitless Word
πάλαιpálai
GreekG38195 occurrences (KJV)

(adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient

KJV renders it: any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past

Where it appears

  • Mark 15:44Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
  • Luke 10:13“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Heb 1:1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
  • 2 Pet 1:9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
  • Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.