STRONGS G827:
αὐγή,
-ῆς,
ἡ,
brightness, radiance (cf. German
Auge [
eye], of which the tragic poets sometimes use
αὐγή, see Pape [or Liddell and Scott; cf. Latin
lumina]), especially
of the sun; hence,
ἡλίου is often added (Homer and following),
daylight; hence,
ἄχρις [
-ρι T Tr WH] αὐγῆς even till break of day,
Acts 20:11 (Polyaenus 4, 18, p. 386
κατὰ τὴν πρώτην αὐγὴν τῆς ἡμέρας). [Synonym: see
φέγγος, at the end.]
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