noun · feminine
prōias
Strong’sG4405
early morning
stem prōi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
πρωία, v.s. πρώιος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4405 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpro-ee'-ah
day-dawn
Fromfeminine of a derivative of G4404 as noun;
King Jamesearly, 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
Attic dialect πρῷος, α, ον: (πρωΐ, πρῴ):— early,
I early in the day, at early morn, Refs 8th c.BC+ adverb = {πρωΐ}Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 substantive πρωΐα, ἡ, early morning, ἅμα τῇ π.NT adverb = {πρῴ}Refs: with Preps., καθ᾽ ἑκάστην πρωΐαν Refs 1st c.AD+
II early in the year, πρώϊος [ὁ στρατὸς] συνελέγετο Refs 5th c.BC+; τῶν καρπίμων ἅττα μή 'στι π. Refs 5th c.BC+; π. χειμών an early winter, Refs; τὸν πρώϊον (or πρῷον) σῖτον Refs 3rd c.BC+; διὰ τὸ τὰ μὲν πρώϊα, τὰ δ᾽ ὄψια προΐεσθαι (i.e. ᾠά) Refs 4th c.BC+; π. τόπος an early place, i.e. producing early fruits, Refs 4th c.BC+: comparative πρωΐτερος Refs codices πρωϊ-ότης, ητος, ἡ, earliness, of fruits, Refs
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 | prōias | prōiais |
| object accusative | prōian | prōiain |
| direct address vocative | prōiar | prōiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prōiau2×Πρωΐας | prōiaiu |
| to, for dative | prōia | prōiai |
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
prōia 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
prōiau“morning”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 27:1Prōiau de generantau sumbouliem labala pantois tois …When morning came, all the chief priests and …
John 21:4“daybreak”Prōiau de ēdē generantau stēata Iēsus eis …… the morning, Jesus stood on the shore …