noun · masculine
orthros
Strong’sG3722
early dawn, day-break
stem orthr-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
ὄρθρος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for שַׁחַר, בֹּקֶר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3722 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidor'-thros
dawn (as sun-rise, rising of light); by extension, morn
Fromfrom the same as G3735;
King Jamesearly in the morning.
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
the time just before or about daybreak, dawn, cock-crow (ἀπ᾽ ὄρθρου μέχρι περ ἂν ἥλιος ἀνάσχῃ Refs 5th c.BC+at dawn, Refs 8th c.BC+; πρὸς ὄρθρον towards dawn, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸν ὄ., absolutely, in the morning, Refs 5th c.BC+; δι᾽ ὄρθρων each morning early, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄ. βαθύς dim morning twilight, ἀλλὰ νῦν ὄ. β. NT+5th c.BC+
II Ὄρθρος, ὁ, a mythical dog, son of Typhaon and Echidna, that kept the herds of Geryoneus on the island Erytheia, and was there killed by Heracles, Refs 8th c.BC+
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 nominative | orthros | orthrois |
| object accusative | orthron1×ὄρθρον | orthroin |
| direct address vocative | orthror | orthroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | orthrou2×ὄρθρου | orthroiu |
| to, for dative | orthro | orthroi |
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
orthro 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
orthron“daybreak”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 5:21akouarantois de eiserchala hupo ton orthron eis tem hierem kai didaskale. Paragenerantos …At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts …
orthrou“early in the morning”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 24:1ta de hena teiu sabbateiu orthrou bathuou epi tem mnēmem erchala ferarōntais …… the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb …
John 8:2Orthrou de palin parageneta eis tem hierem, …Early in the morning He went back into the temple …