Lexicon augé: brightness, spec. daylight Original Word: αὐγή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: augé Phonetic Spelling: (owg'-ay) Short Definition: light of day Definition: brightness, daylight, dawn. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionbrightness, spec. daylight NASB Translationdaybreak (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 827: αὐγήαὐγή, αὐγῆς, ἡ, brightness, radiance (cf. German Auge (eye), of which the tragic poets sometimes use αὐγή, see Pape (or Liddell and Scott; cf. Latin lumina)), especially of the sun; hence, ἡλίου is often added ( Homer and following), daylight; hence, ἄχρις ( ἄχρι T Tr WH) αὐγῆς even till break of day, Acts 20:11 ( Polyaen. 4, 18, p. 386 κατά τήν πρώτην αὐγήν τῆς ἡμέρας). (Synonym: see φέγγος, at the end.)
Strong's break of day. Of uncertain derivation; a ray of light, i.e. (by implication) radiance, dawn -- break of day. |
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