ἔσχατος
eschatos
Last, final, or farthest; the source of the modern term eschatology.
- Pronunciation
- és-kha-tosPronunciation is approximate and may vary by period, dialect, and scholarly reconstruction.
- Morphology
- adjective
- Semantic range
- last
- final
- farthest
- least
- Key passages
Corpus usage
- Context determines whether the word marks sequence, rank, distance, or final time.
Common interpretive errors
- Assuming every occurrence is technical end-times vocabulary.
- Building doctrine from etymology alone.