νῦν, adv.

[in LXX chiefly for עַתָּה ;]

__1. prop. of time, now, i.e. at the present time: as opposite to past, Jhn.4:18, Act.7:52, Rom.13:11, 2Co.7:9, Col.1:24, al.; opposite to fut. Jhn.12:27, Rom.11:31, al.; with art. ὁ (ἡ, τὸ) and subst. the present: Rom.3:26, Gal.4:25, 1Ti.6:17, Tit.2:12, al.; απὸ τοῦ ν. (LXX for מֵעַתָּה), Luk.1:48, Act.18:6, al.; ἄχρι τοῦ ν. Rom.8:22, Php.1:5; ἕως τοῦ ν. (LXX for עַד עַתָּה), Mat.24:21, Mrk.13:19; τὰ ν. as regards the present, Act.5:38; with pret. just now, but now, Mat.26:65, Jhn.11:8 21:10; with fut. now, presently, Jhn.12:31, Act.20:22; so with praes. presently, forthwith, Jhn.12:31 17:13; καὶ ν. Jhn.11:22 17:5, al.; ἀλλὰ ν. Luk.22:36; ἔτι ν. 1Co.3:2; τότε (πότε) . . . ν. (δέ), Rom.6:21 11:30; ν. ἤδη, 1Jn.4:3; ν. οὖν, Act.10:33, al.

__2. Of logical sequence (often difficult to disting. from the temporal sense; cf. Lft. Notes, 113f.), now, therefore, now, however, as it is: Luk.11:39; καὶ ν. Act.3:17, 2Th.2:6, 1Jn.2:28; id. before δεῦρο, Act.7:34; ν. δέ, Jhn.8:40 9:41 15:22, 24, 18:36, 1Co.5:11 7:14 12:20, al. (cf. WM, 579.11).

(AS)

now; the present; as regards the present; just now; but now; presently; forthwith; therefore; however; as it is