noun · neuter
mesonuktiem
Strong’sG3317
midnight
stem mesonukti-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μεσο-νύκτιος (on v.l. μεσα-, v. Bl., § 6, 2), -ον,
(< μέσος, νύξ), [in LXX chiefly for הַלַּיְלָה חֵצִי;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3317 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
of or at midnight, ἔκλειψις Refs 5th c.BC+l.7(6).5; μ. ὠλλύμαν Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter as adverb, Refs 3rd c.BC+: as substantive μεσο-νύκτιον, τό, NT+5th c.BC+at midnight, NT; μεσονύκτου seems to be falsa lectio in Refs 4th c.BC+:—the spelling μεσᾰνύκτιον is variant in NT+3rd c.AD+
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.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | mesonuktiem | mesonuktieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | mesonuktieu2×μεσονυκτίου | mesonuktieiu |
| to, for dative | mesonuktie | mesonuktiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
mesonuktie is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
mesonuktieu“midnight”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 11:5… echati filon kai poreueti pros auton mesonuktieu kai legateia auto; Filor, kichrēasar mi …… you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three …
Acts 20:7… epaurion, parateinate tē ton logon mechris mesonuktieu.… them and kept on speaking until midnight.
mesonuktiem2×
Mark 13:35… tau oikiau erchotō, ē opse ē mesonuktiem ē alektorofōniau ē prōi,… return — whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in …
Acts 16:25Kata de tem mesonuktiem Paulos kai Silos proseuchorōntois humnale ton …About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and …