Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

δέ

Vocabulary form: 
dev
Definition: 

but, and

Frequency: 
2,792
GK: 
1254
Mnemonic Singing: 

Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
hat saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.

Notes: 

dev is a postpositive. This means that it cannot be the first word in a sentence or clause, even though in your translation it is the first word. It usually is the second word and sometimes the third, e.g., oJ de; ei\pon ....

Mnemonics

The debut of the Andes mountain climber!

I watched | de | movie, | but | I didn't read | de | book.

Biblical Concordance

Mark 5:33 Then (de | δέ | conj) the Then (de | δέ | conj) woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole the truth.
Mark 5:34 And (de | δέ | conj) he And (de | δέ | conj) said to her, “Daughter, your faith your has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction.” your
Mark 5:36 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus, ignoring what was said, said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”
Mark 5:40 And they began to ridicule him. But (de | δέ | conj) when he had put them all out, he took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.
Mark 6:15 But (de | δέ | conj) others But (de | δέ | conj) were saying, “He is Elijah.” Still (de | δέ | conj) others Still (de | δέ | conj) were saying, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”
Mark 6:16 But (de | δέ | conj) when Herod heard this, he said, “He is John, the man I beheaded; John, he has been raised from the dead.”
Mark 6:19 So (de | δέ | conj) Herodias was nursing a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to do it,
Mark 6:24 So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” And (de | δέ | conj) her mother said, “The head of John the baptizer.”
Mark 6:37 But (de | δέ | conj) he answered them, saying, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”
Mark 6:38 And (de | δέ | conj) he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out they said, “Five — and two fish.”
Mark 6:49 but (de | δέ | conj) when they saw him walking on the lake, they thought he was a ghost. And they cried out,
Mark 6:50 for they all saw him and were terrified. But (de | δέ | conj) immediately he spoke with them and said to them, “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid!”
Mark 7:6 And (de | δέ | conj) he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied accurately about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but (de | δέ | conj) their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7 In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’
Mark 7:11 But (de | δέ | conj) you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever help you might have received from me is Corban” (that is, given to God),
Mark 7:20 And (de | δέ | conj) he said, “What comes out of a person, that is what defiles him.
Mark 7:24 From there Jesus arose and went to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, yet he was not able to escape attention.
Mark 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.
Mark 7:28 But (de | δέ | conj) she answered him, saying, “Lord, even the dogs under the table feed from the children’s crumbs.”
Mark 7:36 Jesus ordered them to tell no one, but (de | δέ | conj) the more he ordered them, the more they spread the news.
Mark 8:5 And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”
Mark 8:9 There were about four thousand present, and he sent them on their way.
Mark 8:28 So (de | δέ | conj) they answered him, saying, “John the baptizer; and others, Elijah; but (de | δέ | conj) others, one of the prophets.”
Mark 8:29 And he asked them, “But (de | δέ | conj) who do you say I am?” Peter answered, saying to him, “You are the Christ.”
Mark 8:33 But (de | δέ | conj) after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not thinking the thoughts of God, but those of men.”
Mark 8:35 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but (d | δ᾿ | conj) whoever will lose his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.
Mark 9:12 And (de | δέ | conj) he said to them, “Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Yet how is it written about the Son of Man? That he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Mark 9:19 Answering them he said, “O unbelieving generation! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me.”
Mark 9:21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And (de | δέ | conj) he said, “Since childhood;
Mark 9:23 And (de | δέ | conj) Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for the one who has faith.”
Mark 9:25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again!”
Mark 9:27 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus, taking him by the hand, lifted him up, and he stood up.
Mark 9:32 But (de | δέ | conj) they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
Mark 9:34 But (de | δέ | conj) they kept silent, for on the way they had argued among themselves about who was the greatest.
Mark 9:39 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name and be able soon after to speak evil of me.
Mark 9:50 Salt is good, but (de | δέ | conj) if the salt has become unsalty, with what will you make it savory? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Mark 10:3 In response he said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
Mark 10:4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Mark 10:5 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
Mark 10:6 But (de | δέ | conj) from the beginning of creation, ‘male and female’ he made them.
Mark 10:13 And people were bringing to him children so that he could touch them, but (de | δέ | conj) his disciples rebuked them.
Mark 10:14 But (de | δέ | conj) when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me. Do not prevent them, for of such is the kingdom of God.
Mark 10:18 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one — God.
Mark 10:20 And (de | δέ | conj) the man said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”
Mark 10:21 But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You lack one thing — go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor; then you will have treasure in heaven. And come, follow me.”
Mark 10:22 Disheartened by the saying, the man went away grieving; for he had many possessions.
Mark 10:24 The disciples were shocked at his words. But (de | δέ | conj) Jesus, responding again, said to them, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!
Mark 10:26 They were even more astonished, saying to themselves, “Then who is able to be saved?”
Mark 10:31 But (de | δέ | conj) many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”
Mark 10:32 Now (de | δέ | conj) they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of them. They were filled with awe, but (de | δέ | conj) those who followed behind were afraid. And taking the twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him:

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