νυνί; (
νῦν with iota demonstrative (
Krüger, § 25, 6, 4f; Kühner, § 180, e. (
Jelf, § 160, e.); Alexander 
Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 80, 2)), in Attic note, 
at this very moment (precisely now, neither before nor after; Latin
nunc ipsum), and only of Time, almost always with the present, very rarely with the future (cf. 
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 19). Not found in the N. T. except in the writings of Paul and in a few places in Acts and the Epistle to the Hebrews; and it differs here in no respect from the simple 
νῦν; cf. Fritzsche, Romans, i., p. 182; (
Winer's Grammar, 23); 
1. of Time: with a present (
Job 30:9), 
Acts 24:13 L T Tr WH; 
Romans 15:23, 
25; 
1 Corinthians 13:13 (
ἄρτι... 
τότε δέ... 
νυνί δέ); 
2 Corinthians 8:11, 
22; 
Philemon 1:9, 
11 (namely, 
ὄντα); with a perfect indicating continuance, 
Romans 3:21 (others refer this to 2); with a preterite (
Psalm 16:11 (
Ps. 17:11)), 
Romans 6:22 (opposed to 
τότε); 
Romans 7:6; 
Ephesians 2:13 (opposed to 1, 
τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ); 
Colossians 1:22 (
Colossians 1:21) (and 
Colossians 3:8; also 
Romans 11:30 WH marginal reading) (opposed to 
πότε); 
Colossians 1:26 (
R G L marginal reading; cf. 
Winers Grammar, § 63 I. 2 b.; 
Buttmann, 382 (328)) (opposed to 
ἀπό τῶν αἰώνων); with a future, 
Job 7:21; Baruch 6:4 (Epistle 
Jeremiah 3); 2 Macc. 10:10; 
τῆς πρός ὑμᾶς νυνί ἀπολογίας, 
Acts 22:1. 
2. contrary to Greek usage, in stating a conclusion (see 
νῦν, 2), 
but since the case stands thus (as it is): 1 Cor. (
1 Corinthians 5:11 R G T L marginal reading); 
1 Corinthians 14:6 R G (i. e. since 
ὁ γλώσσῃ λαλῶν without an interpretation cannot edify the church); 
but now (German 
so aber), 
Hebrews 9:26 L T Tr WH; after a conditional statement with 
εἰ (see 
νῦν, at the end), 
Romans 7:17; 
1 Corinthians 12:18 (
R G T WH marginal reading); 
1 Corinthians 15:20; 
Hebrews 8:6 (here 
L Tr marginal reading 
WH text 
νῦν), cf. 
Hebrews 8:4; 
Hebrews 11:16 Rec., cf. 
Hebrews 11:15; (
Buttmann, § 151, 26). 
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