Lexicon mesonuktion: at midnight Original Word: μεσονύκτιον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: mesonuktion Phonetic Spelling: (mes-on-ook'-tee-on) Short Definition: midnight Definition: midnight, the middle of the period between sunset and sunrise. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom mesonuktios (at midnight); from mesos and nuxDefinitionat midnight NASB Translationmidnight (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3317: μεσονύκτιονμεσονύκτιον, μεσονυκτίου, τό (neuter of the adjective μεσονύκτιος in Pindar, et al., from μέσος and νύξ, νυκτός), midnight: μεσονυκτίου, at midnight ( Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26), Mark 13:35 (here T Tr WH accusative; cf. Winers Grammar, 230 (215f); Buttmann, § 131, 11); Luke 11:5; κατά τό μεσονύκτιον, about midnight, Acts 16:25; μέχρι μεσονυκτίου, until midnight, Acts 20:7. (The Sept.; Hippocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus, Strabo, Lucian, Plutarch; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 53 ( Winer's Grammar, p. 23 c.).)
Strong's midnight. Neuter of compound of mesos and nux; midnight (especially as a watch) -- midnight. see GREEK mesos see GREEK nux |
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