hōde

This is the ordinary little word for "here." It points to the place where the speaker stands, as opposed to somewhere else ("there"). Most of its uses in the New Testament are exactly this plain one: the loaves they have on hand, the people standing right there, the tomb where Jesus is no longer lying.

The same word also covers motion toward that spot, the way English "here" does in "bring it here" or "come here." When it follows a verb of bringing or coming, it marks the destination rather than a fixed location. The two are really one idea, place, seen either as where something is or as where it is headed.

It often works as half of a matched pair with the word for "there," setting this place against that one: "Look, the Messiah is here, or there."

Sometimes the word does not point to a place at all. It points to the situation at hand, the way English can say "here is the problem" or "this is where the real question lies." The writer is not gesturing at a location but at the matter under discussion.

The letter to the Hebrews uses it this way to contrast two arrangements: in this case, ordinary mortal priests collect the tithe, while in that other case the one who collects it is said to live. Paul uses it to mean "on this point" when he lays out what is required of a faithful steward.

The book of Revelation has a memorable version of this. Several times it stops the vision to say, in effect, "this is the point that calls for wisdom" or "this is what the endurance of God's people comes down to." The word marks the moment, not a map location. One related use stretches "here" to mean "here on earth": Hebrews says that here, in this passing life, we have no lasting city.