Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ἔσχατος

Vocabulary form: 
e[scatoV, -h, -on
Definition: 

last

Frequency: 
52
GK: 
2274
Root: 
ejscato
Cognates: 

Eschatology is the study of last things.

Mnemonics: 

Hey, skat to the last!

Mnemonic Singing: 

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
till my trophies at last I lay down.

Verse: 

“But many will be first who were ἔσχατος, and ἔσχατος who were first.” (Matt 19:30)

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 5:26 I tell you the truth, you will certainly not get out of there until you have paid the last (eschaton | ἔσχατον | acc sg masc) penny.
Matthew 12:45 Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there; and the last (eschata | ἔσχατα | nom pl neut) state of that person turns out to be worse than the first. So will it be for this evil generation as well.”
Matthew 19:30 But many will be first who were last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc), and last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc) who were first.
Matthew 20:8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last (eschatōn | ἐσχάτων | gen pl masc) and going back to the first.’
Matthew 20:12 saying, ‘These last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc) worked but one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’
Matthew 20:14 Take what is yours and be gone. I choose to give to this last (eschatō | ἐσχάτῳ | dat sg masc) man the same as I give to you.
Matthew 20:16 So the last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc) will be first, and the first will be last.” (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc)
Matthew 27:64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτη | nom sg fem) deceit will be greater than the first.”
Mark 9:35 And sitting down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc) of all and servant of all.”
Mark 10:31 But many who are first will be last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc), and the last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc) will be first.”
Mark 12:6 He had still one other, a beloved son. He sent him last (eschaton | ἔσχατον | acc sg masc) to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
Mark 12:22 And the seven did not leave offspring. Last (eschaton | ἔσχατον | adverb) of all the woman also died.
Luke 11:26 Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, — seven of them! — and after going in they settle down to live there. So the last (eschata | ἔσχατα | nom pl neut) state of that person has become worse than the first.”
Luke 12:59 I say to you, you will certainly not get out of there until you have paid the last (eschaton | ἔσχατον | acc sg neut) penny.”
Luke 13:30 But take note, some who are last (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc) will be first, and some are first who will be last.” (eschatoi | ἔσχατοι | nom pl masc)
Luke 14:9 and the one who invited both you and him will say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then with shame you will proceed to take the least (eschaton | ἔσχατον | acc sg masc) important place.
Luke 14:10 Rather, when you are invited, go and recline in the least (eschaton | ἔσχατον | acc sg masc) important place so that when the one who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher!’ Then you will have glory in the presence of all who are reclining at table with you.
John 6:39 And this is the will of the one who sent me: that of all he has given me I should lose none but raise them up on the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who considers the Son and comes to believe in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day.”
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day.
John 6:54 The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day;
John 7:37 On the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day of the festival, the great day, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
John 11:24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day.”
John 12:48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him at the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) day.
Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end (eschatou | ἐσχάτου | gen sg neut) of the earth.”
Acts 2:17 ‘And it will be in the last (eschatais | ἐσχάταις | dat pl fem) days,’ declares God, ‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 13:47 For thus the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends (eschatou | ἐσχάτου | gen sg neut) of the earth.’”
1 Corinthians 4:9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us, the apostles, last (eschatous | ἐσχάτους | acc pl masc), as men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:8 Last (eschaton | ἔσχατον | adverb) of all, as to one abnormally born, he appeared even to me.
1 Corinthians 15:26 The last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc) enemy to be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc) Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτῃ | dat sg fem) trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
2 Timothy 3:1 But take note of this, that in the last (eschatais | ἐσχάταις | dat pl fem) days there will be difficult times;
Hebrews 1:2 but in these final (eschatou | ἐσχάτου | gen sg masc) days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom he also created the material universe.
James 5:3 Your gold and your silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure for the last (eschatais | ἐσχάταις | dat pl fem) days.
1 Peter 1:5 who by the power of God are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last (eschatō | ἐσχάτῳ | dat sg masc) time.
1 Peter 1:20 He was chosen in advance, before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end (eschatou | ἐσχάτου | gen sg masc) of the times for you
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last (eschata | ἔσχατα | nom pl neut) state has become for them worse than the first.
2 Peter 3:3 Above all you must understand that in the last (eschatōn | ἐσχάτων | gen pl fem) days scoffers will come with scoffing, following their own lusts
1 John 2:18 My children, it is the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτη | nom sg fem) hour! And just as you heard that the Antichrist would come, even now many antichrists have appeared. Therefore we know that it is the last (eschatē | ἐσχάτη | nom sg fem) hour.
Jude 1:18 how they said to you, “In the final (eschatou | ἐσχάτου | gen sg masc) age there will be scoffers driven by their own ungodly desires.”
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Do not fear! I am the First and the Last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc),
Revelation 2:8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The one who is the First and the Last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc), who died and came to life, has this to say:
Revelation 2:19 I know your works, your love and faith and service and steadfast endurance, and that your recent (eschata | ἔσχατα | acc pl neut) works are greater than the first.
Revelation 15:1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last (eschatas | ἐσχάτας | acc pl fem), because with them the wrath of God is finished.
Revelation 21:9 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final (eschatōn | ἐσχάτων | gen pl fem) plagues, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last (eschatos | ἔσχατος | nom sg masc), the beginning and the end.”