after
Opiso marks a relation of following, succession, position behind, or movement back in the cited biblical clauses.
As a function word, it marks a following or behind-relation: people come or go after another, something is located behind, or movement is directed back; the supplied morphology shows both prepositional and adverbial use.
Senses in use
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Marks following, behindness, or backward direction · dominant
The prepositional form links persons or movement with someone or something following: in Mark 1:17 the APB renders the invitation “Come after me,” while in Acts 20:30 it renders disciples being drawn away “after them.” The adverbial form marks location or reversal of direction: in Luke 7:38 the APB renders the woman standing “behind his feet,” and in Matthew 24:18 it renders the field worker’s instruction not to “turn back.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “after,” “behind,” and “turn back” in the cited clauses. These render the clauses’ overall relations rather than isolating a fixed English equivalent for each occurrence.