ἐπιφώσκω
epiphṓskō · G2020 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to dawn, to become light
To change from darkness to light in the early morning hours
ExamplesMatthew 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the tomb.
Luke 23:54 It was a preparation day, and a Sabbath was about to begin.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- σάββατονSabbath, week 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto+ σάββατονSabbath, week 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἀνατέλλω anatéllō · G393 · to come up, to move upward, to rise
- The target term ἐπιφαύσκω and ἀνατέλλω (“to cause to arise”) both can denote the breaking of day, the dawning of light; ἀνατέλλω additionally has a broader application to celestial rising, botanical growth, and genealogical descent, but the two genuinely converge in dawn contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To dawn, to become light14.41
- In Matthew 28:1, the women came to the tomb “after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week” — the specific sense of daylight dawning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (imperfect ἐπεφωσκον); to grow light, to dawn (cf. Buttmann, 68 (60)): Lk 23:54; followed…
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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