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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G5610, H8160
Hebrew
שָׁעָה · shâʻâh
Greek
ὥρα · hōra

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ὥρα

G5610
Transliteration
hōra
Language
Greek
Part of speech
G:N-F
Indexed occurrences
106

Glosses

hour, day, hour, instant, season, X short, (even-)tide, (high) time

Lexicon definition

ὥρα, -ας, ἡ, [in LXX chiefly for עֵת and in Da for שָׁעָה ;] __1. any time or period fixed by nature, esp. a season (Hom., Hdt., Plat., al.). __2. A part of the day, and esp. a twelfth part of day or night, an hour: Mat.24:36, Mrk.13:32, Act.10:3, al.; accus. in ans. to "when"? (M, Pr., 63, 215; Bl., §34, 8), Jhn.4:52, Act.10:3, 30 1Co.15:30, Rev.3:3; accusative of duration, Mat.20:12 26, Mrk.14:37; inexactly, πρὸς ὥραν, for a season, for a time, Jhn.5:35, 2Co.7:8, Gal.2:5; πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας, for a short season (ICC, in l.), 1Th.2:17. __3. A definite point of time, time, hour: Mat.26:45; with genitive of thing(s), Luk.1:10 14:17, Rev.3:10, al.; with genitive of person(s), Luk.22:53, Jhn.2:4 7:30, al.; ἡ ἄρτι ὥρα, 1Co.4:11; ἐσχάτη ὥ., 1Jn.2:18; before ὅτε, Jhn.4:21, 23 5:25 16:25; ἵνα, Jhn.12:23, al.; with accusative and inf., Rom.13:11 (cf. DB, ext., 475b 476b). (AS)

A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament

Ὥρα

G5610
Transliteration
hṓra
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
106

Glosses

day, hour, instant, season, X short, (even-)tide, (high) time

Lexicon definition

a limited portion of time marked out by part of a settled routine or train of circumstance; a season of the year; time of day, Mat. 14.15. Mar. 6.35; 11.11 an hour, Mat. 20.3. Jno. 11.9, et al.; in N.T. an eventful season, 1 Jno. 2.18, bis. Re. 3.10; 14.7; due time, Jno. 16.21 Ro. 13.11; a destined period, hour, Mat. 26.24. Mar. 14.35. Jno. 2.4; 7.30, et al.; a short period, Mat. 26.40. Jno 5.35. 2 Co 7.8. Ga. 2.5. 1 Th. 2.17. Philem. 15; a point of time, time, Mat. 8.13; 24.42. Lu. 2.38, et al.: whence

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שָׁעָה

H8160
Transliteration
shâʻâh
Pronunciation
shaw-aw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
5

Glosses

hour.

Lexicon definition

properly, a look, i.e. a moment

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

עֵת

H6256
Transliteration
ʻêth
Pronunciation
ayth
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
296

Glosses

[phrase] after, (al-) ways, [idiom] certain, [phrase] continually, [phrase] evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.

Lexicon definition

time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

שָׁעָה

H8159
Transliteration
shâʻâh
Pronunciation
shaw-aw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
14

Glosses

depart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.

Lexicon definition

to gaze at or about (properly, for help)

by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildered

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Hour

First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a "moment," a "look." It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13; Luke 12:39). With the ancient Hebrews the divisions of the day were "morning, evening, and noon-day" (Ps. 55:17, etc.). The Greeks, following the Babylonians, divided the day into twelve hours. The Jews, during the Captivity, learned also from the Babylonians this method of dividing time. When Judea became subject to the Romans, the Jews adopted the Roman mode of reckoning time. The night was divided into four watches (Luke 12:38; Matt. 14:25; 13:25). Frequent allusion is also made to hours (Matt. 25:13; 26:40, etc.). (See [287]DAY.) An hour was the twelfth part of the day, reckoning from sunrise to sunset, and consequently it perpetually varied in length.

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

HOURS

See DAY.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Hour

Indexed occurrences: 88

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Strong's Concordance

Hours

Indexed occurrences: 3

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All Scripture references93 references

1 Kings 2

1 Kings 8:121 Kings 11:36

Esther 1

Esther 8:16

Job 2

Job 10:21Job 18:6

Joel 1

Joel 2:2

Matthew 19

Matthew 6:27Matthew 8:13Matthew 9:22Matthew 10:19Matthew 14:15Matthew 15:28Matthew 20:3Matthew 20:5Matthew 20:6Matthew 20:9Matthew 20:12Matthew 24:36Matthew 24:44Matthew 24:50Matthew 25:13Matthew 26:40Matthew 26:45Matthew 27:45Matthew 27:46

Mark 9

Mark 6:35Mark 6:48Mark 13:32Mark 14:35Mark 14:37Mark 14:41Mark 15:25Mark 15:33Mark 15:34

Luke 15

Luke 1:10Luke 2:32Luke 7:21Luke 12:25Luke 12:38Luke 12:39Luke 12:40Luke 12:46Luke 13:31Luke 20:19Luke 22:14Luke 22:53Luke 22:59Luke 23:44Luke 24:33

John 21

John 1:7John 1:39John 2:4John 4:6John 4:52John 4:53John 5:25John 5:28John 5:35John 7:30John 8:20John 11:9John 12:23John 12:27John 13:1John 16:4John 16:25John 16:32John 17:1John 19:14John 19:27

Acts 9

Acts 2:15Acts 3:1Acts 5:7Acts 10:3Acts 10:9Acts 10:30Acts 16:33Acts 19:34Acts 23:23

Romans 1

Romans 13:11

1 Corinthians 2

1 Corinthians 4:111 Corinthians 15:30

James 1

James 1:17

Revelation 10

Revelation 3:3Revelation 3:10Revelation 8:1Revelation 9:15Revelation 11:13Revelation 14:7Revelation 17:12Revelation 18:10Revelation 18:17Revelation 18:19

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Aiath

same as Ai; an hour; eye; fountain

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Athlai

my hour or time

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Cock-crowing

In our Lord's time the Jews had adopted the Greek and Roman division of the night into four watches, each consisting of three hours, the first beginning at six o'clock in the evening (Luke 12:38; Matt. 14:25; Mark 6:48). But the ancient division, known as the first and second cock-crowing, was still retained. The cock usually crows several times soon after midnight (this is the first crowing), and again at the dawn of day (and this is the second crowing). Mark mentions (14:30) the two cock-crowings. Matthew (26:34) alludes to that only which was emphatically the cock-crowing, viz, the second.

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Darkness

The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23). When Jesus hung upon the cross (Matt. 27:45; Luke 23:44), from the "sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." On Mount Sinai, Moses (Ex. 20:21) "drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." This was the "thick cloud upon the mount" in which Yahweh was when he spake unto Moses there. The Lord dwelt in the cloud upon the mercy-seat (1 Kings 8:12), the cloud of glory. When the psalmist (Ps. 97:2) describes the inscrutable nature of God's workings among the sons of men, he says, "Clouds and darkness are round about him." God dwells in thick darkness. Darkness (Isa. 13:9, 10; Matt. 24:29) also is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord. It is a symbol of misery and adversity (Job 18:6; Ps. 107:10; Isa. 8:22; Ezek. 30:18). The "day of darkness" in Joel 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. "Works of darkness" are impure actions (Eph. 5:11). "Outer darkness" refers to the darkness of the streets in the East, which are never lighted up by any public or private lamps after nightfall, in contrast with the blaze of cheerful light in the house. It is also a symbol of ignorance (Isa. 9:2; 60:2; Matt. 6:23) and of death (Job 10:21; 17:13).

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Day's journey

The usual length of a day's journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is about 25 or 30 miles. The "three days' journey" mentioned in Ex. 3:18 is simply a journey which would occupy three days in going and returning.

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Hour

First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a "moment," a "look." It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13; Luke 12:39). With the ancient Hebrews the divisions of the day were "morning, evening, and noon-day" (Ps. 55:17, etc.). The Greeks, following the Babylonians, divided the day into twelve hours. The Jews, during the Captivity, learned also from the Babylonians this method of dividing time. When Judea became subject to the Romans, the Jews adopted the Roman mode of reckoning time. The night was divided into four watches (Luke 12:38; Matt. 14:25; 13:25). Frequent allusion is also made to hours (Matt. 25:13; 26:40, etc.). (See [287]DAY.) An hour was the twelfth part of the day, reckoning from sunrise to sunset, and consequently it perpetually varied in length.

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Ittah-kazin

hour, or time, of a prince

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Light

The offspring of the divine command (Gen. 1:3). "All the more joyous emotions of the mind, all the pleasing sensations of the frame, all the happy hours of domestic intercourse were habitually described among the Hebrews under imagery derived from light" (1 Kings 11:36; Isa. 58:8; Esther 8:16; Ps. 97:11). Light came also naturally to typify true religion and the felicity it imparts (Ps. 119:105; Isa. 8:20; Matt. 4:16, etc.), and the glorious inheritance of the redeemed (Col. 1:12; Rev. 21:23-25). God is said to dwell in light inaccessible (1 Tim. 6:16). It frequently signifies instruction (Matt. 5:16; John 5:35). In its highest sense it is applied to Christ as the "Sun of righteousness" (Mal. 4:2; Luke 2:32; John 1:7-9). God is styled "the Father of lights" (James 1:17). It is used of angels (2 Cor. 11:14), and of John the Baptist, who was a "burning and a shining light" (John 5:35), and of all true disciples, who are styled "the light of the world" (Matt. 5:14).

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Othni

my time; my hour

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Othniel

the hour of God

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