ἔννυχον
énnychon · G1773 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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at night, in the night
Pertaining to the period between sunset and sunrise
ExamplesMark 1:35 And in the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and prayed there for a time.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἡμέρα hēméra · G2250 · day
- The genitive case of ἡμέρα used adverbially to mean 'by day' or 'in the daytime,' the direct temporal opposite of ἔννυχον 'by night.'
In the other Testament 1 word
- לַיִל layil · H3915 · night
- The standard Hebrew term for 'night,' the temporal period; ἔννυχον (adverbially 'by night') would naturally be rendered in Hebrew using this noun with appropriate prepositions (e.g., בַּלַּיְלָה 'in the night').
Semantic domains 1 entry
- At night, in the night67.193
- This adverb denotes the nighttime as the setting of an action, used of Jesus rising early, while it was still dark, to go to a solitary place to pray — "in the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and prayed there for a time" (Mark 1:35).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἔννυχον (νύξ), nightly, nocturnal (Homer, Pindar, Tragg.). Neuter adverbially, by night:…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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