adverb
aurion
Strong’sG839
tomorrow
stem auri-14 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 booksnever changes form
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Tomorrow, the day following today 1234. It is regularly used with the article to mean "the next day" as a noun phrase 13, and can also refer to "the following day" generally, as in arrangements made for the day after 1. The word is formed from a root connected with the fresh morning air or breeze, so that it literally carries the sense of "fresh" before being used adverbially for "tomorrow" 2.
The word can also be used more loosely for the near future, shortly or presently, rather than the literal next calendar day, and in this sense is set in contrast with "today" 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
αὔριον
adv.,[in LXX for מָחָר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G839 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidow'-ree-on
properly, fresh, i.e. (adverb with ellipsis of G2250) to-morrow
Fromfrom a derivative of the same as G109 (meaning a breeze, i.e. the morning air);
King James(to-)morrow, next day.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
adverb to-morrow, Refs 8th c.BC+; αὔ. τηνικάδε tomorrow at this time, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐς or εἰς αὔ. on the morrow, Refs 8th c.BC+ (or till morning, Refs 8th c.BC+; for the morrow, καλέσαι ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς αὔ.Refs
2 presently, shortly, φάγωμεν καὶ πίωμεν, αὔ. γὰρ ἀποθνῄσκομενNT; opposed to σήμερον, NT
II substantive, αὔ. ἣν ἀρετὴν διαείσεται the morrow will distinguish.., Refs 8th c.BC+
III ἡ αὔ. (i.e. ἡμέρα) the morrow, NT+5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ τὴν αὔ.Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ Αὔ. personified by Refs 5th c.BC+. (Cf. Lithuanian aušrà 'dawn', Sanskrit usrás 'of the dawn'; see at {ἄγχαυρος},{ἕως}.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
14 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 6:30… chorton tou agrou sēmeron arōnton kai aurion eis klibanon balorōnton tos theos houtōs …… field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will …
Matthew 6:34mē oun merimnaveia eis tan aurion, tas gar aurion merimnati heautau; arketem …Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself …
Matthew 6:34… merimnaveia eis tan aurion, tas gar aurion merimnati heautau; arketem ta hēmera tas …… do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has …
Luke 10:35kai epi tan aurion ekbalarantos duo dēnarieim dōata to pandochevo …The next day he took out two denarii and …
Luke 12:28… agro ton chorton arōnton sēmeron kai aurion eis klibanon balorōnton tos theos houtōs …… field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how …
Luke 13:32… daimoneim kai iasiain apotelamō sēmeron kai aurion, kai ta trita teleiomō.… demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I …
Luke 13:33plēn datō min sēmeron kai aurion kai ta echorōnta poreuorō, hoti ouk …… I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it …
Acts 4:3… kai tithela eis tērēsian eis tan aurion, ate gar hesperas ēdē.… put them in custody until the next day.
Acts 4:5Geneta de epi tan aurion sunagira autoiu toin archontoin kai toin …The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled …
Acts 23:20… Ioudaiois suntithela teu erōtara sin hopōs aurion ton Paulon katagaseia eis tem sunedriem …… to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more …
1 Corinthians 15:32… nekrois ouk egerolō, Esthianeia kai pinaneia, aurion gar apothnēskanō.… Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
James 4:13Agasōr nun tois legarōntoir; Sēmeron ē aurion poreueni eis hōdan tan polan kai …… now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or …
James 4:14hotinois ouk epistovō tem tau aurion poias tas zōas vu; atmidas gar …… not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are …
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Acts 25:22… Boulome kai autos tou anthrōpou akouara. Aurion, fēatō, akouesi autou.… like to hear this man myself.” “Tomorrow you will hear him,” Festus declared.