opsia marks the evening time when an ensuing action or situation is set in the narrative.

Across the supplied verses, the term consistently marks evening as the temporal setting for a following action, condition, or observation: disciples go to the sea, people bring the sick, a meal begins, workers are paid, or a scene is described after day’s end.

1. Evening as the setting for an event · dominant

   The adjective occurs in clauses that locate subsequent events at evening: in John 6:16 the APB renders “When evening came” before the disciples go down to the sea, and in Mark 14:17 it introduces his arrival with the twelve. The same time-setting use frames the bringing of sick people in Mark 1:32, the boat’s position in Mark 6:47, payment of workers in Matthew 20:8, and Joseph’s coming in Matthew 27:57.

   John 6:16Mark 14:17Mark 1:32Mark 6:47Matthew 20:8Matthew 27:57

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the temporal clause as “When evening came” or “When evening had come”; John 20:19 instead reads “When it was evening on that day.” These phrases confirm the verse-level time setting rather than establish a separate lexical distinction.