Lexicon orthros: daybreak, dawn Original Word: ὄρθρος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: orthros Phonetic Spelling: (or'-thros) Short Definition: early dawn, day-break Definition: early dawn, day-break. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiondaybreak, dawn NASB Translationdaybreak (1), early in the morning (1), early dawn (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3722: ὄρθροςὄρθρος, ὄρθρου, ὁ (from ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι to stir up, rouse; cf. Latin orior, ortus), from Hesiod down; the Sept. for שַׁחַר dawn, and several times for בֹּקֶר; daybreak, dawn: ὄρθρου βαθέος or βαθέως (see βαθέως and βαθύς (on the genitive cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26)), at early dawn, Luke 24:1; ὄρθρου, at daybreak, at dawn, early in the morning, John 8:2 ( Hesiod, Works, 575; the Sept. Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 33:5 (), etc.); ὑπό τόν ὄρθρον, Acts 5:21 (Dio Cassius, 76, 17).
Strong's early in the morning. From the same as oros; dawn (as sun-rise, rising of light); by extension, morn -- early in the morning. see GREEK oros |
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