STRONGS G3722:
ὄρθρος,
ὄρθρου,
ὁ (from
ὈΡΩ,
ὄρνυμι to stir up, rouse; cf. Latin
orior,
ortus), from
Hesiod down; the
Sept. for
שַׁחַר dawn, and several times for
בֹּקֶר;
daybreak, dawn:
ὄρθρου βαθέος or
βαθέως (see
βαθέως and
βαθύς (on the genitive cf.
Winers Grammar, § 30, 11;
Buttmann, § 132, 26)), at early dawn,
Luke 24:1;
ὄρθρου, at daybreak, at dawn, early in the morning,
John 8:2 (
Hesiod, Works, 575; the
Sept. Jeremiah 25:4;
Jeremiah 33:5 (
Jer. 26:5), etc.);
ὑπό τόν ὄρθρον,
Acts 5:21 (
Dio Cassius, 76, 17).
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