Definition:
πάλιν, adv., [in LXX for שׁוּב, etc;] 1) of place, back, backwards (LS, see word). 2) Of time, again, once more: Mat.4:8, Mrk.2:13, Luk.23:20, Jhn.1:35 (and freq.), Act.17:32, Rom.11:23, Gal.1:9, Heb.1:6, al; pleonastically, π. ἀνακάμπτειν, Act.18:21; ὑποστρέφειν, Gal.1:17; εἰς τὸ π, 2Co.13:2; π. ἐκ τρίτου (Bl, §81, 4), Mat.26:44; ἐκ δευτέρου, Mat.26:42, Act.10:15; π. δεῦτερον, Jhn.4:54 21:16; π. ἄνωθεν (Wis.19:6), Gal.4:9. 3) Rhetorically, again; (a) further, moreover: Mat.5:33, Luk.13:20, Jhn.12:39, al; (b) in turn, on the other hand (Soph; LXX: Wis.13:8 16:23, al.): Luk.6:43, 1Co.12:21, 2Co.10:7, 1Jn.2:8. (AS)
Definition:
πάλῐν [ᾰ],
poetry also
πάλι (q.see),
adverb 1) of Place,
back, backwards (the usual sense in early
Epic dialect), mostly joined with Verbs of going, coming, etc; π. χώρει [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐλεύσεται, κατελθεῖν, ἐπανέλθωμεν, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δεῦρο σωθήσῃ π. [
Refs]; δόμεναι π. give
back, restore, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἀγκαλέσαι to call
back, [
Refs 4th c.BC+] she turned
back from her son, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: coupled with other
adverbs, π. αὖτις ἔβαινον νηὸς ἐπὶ γλαφυρῆς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὖ π. [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄψορρον π. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. οἴκαδε, π. οἴκαδ᾽ αὖ, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: with the
Article, ἡ π. ὁδός [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) to express
contradiction, π. ἐρέει
gainsay, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ὅ γε λάζετο μῦθον took
back his word,
unsaid it, [
Refs]; opposed to ἀληθέα εἰπεῖν, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηδέ τῳ δόξῃ π. let no one think
contrariwise, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]: in Prose,
contrariwise, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὖ. π. [
Refs] youth's
opposite, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρόνου τὸ π.
the change of time, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare ἔμπαλιν.
II) of Time,
again, once more, rare in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἐξ ἀρχῆς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. καὶ π. [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἔγχει καὶ π. εἰπέ, π. π. Ἡλιοδώρας” [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
III)
in turn, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
again, πρῶτον μέν. ἔπειτα π. [
Refs 4th c.BC+] sometimes means
doubly, as in παλιμμήκης, παλίνσκιος.)