Strong's #3819: palai (pronounced pal'-ahee)

probably another form for 3825 (through the idea of retrocession); (adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient:--any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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palai

1) of old, former

2) long ago

Part of Speech: adverb

Relation: probably another form for G3825 (through the idea of retrocession)

Citing in TDNT: 5:717, 769

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Matthew 11:21: "and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes."
Mark 15:44: "centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead."
Luke 10:13: "in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth"
Hebrews 1:1: "and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the"
2 Peter 1:9: "and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins."
Jude 1:4: "there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,"