is found in the best mss. in Matthew 17:20; Luke 16:26 .
akin to No. 1, is used (a) of place, "hence," or "from hence," Luke 4:9; 13:31; John 2:16; 7:3; 14:31; 18:36; in John 19:18 , "on either side (one)," lit., "hence and hence;" in Revelation 22:2; it is contrasted with ekeithen, "thence," RV, "on this side ... on that" (AV, "on either side"), lit. "hence ... thence;" (b) causal; James 4:1 , "(come they not) hence," i.e., "owing to."
Notes: (1) For makran, "far hence," in Acts 22:21 , see FAR. (2) In Acts 1:5 , the phrase "not many days hence" is, lit., "not after (meta) many days."