ὈΡΘΡΟΣ, ὀρθρος
ORTHROS, orthros
Sounds Like: OR-thros
Translations: dawn, daybreak, morning, a dawn, a daybreak, a morning
From the root: ΟΡΘΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the early morning, specifically the period just before or at sunrise, when light first appears. It is used to describe the beginning of the day or the time when it is still dark but light is approaching. It is a masculine noun.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3722 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 6:251
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 19:15, 32:26
- Judges — 16:2
- 1 Samuel — 9:26
- Judith — 14:2, 14:11
- Proverbs — 23:35
- Song of Solomon — 6:9
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:12
- Joel — 2:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΟΡΘΡΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ὈΡΘΡΙΝΟΣ — early, morning, at dawn
- ὈΡΘΡΟΝ — dawn, daybreak, early morning, the dawn, a dawn
- ὈΡΘΡΟΥ — of dawn, of early morning, dawn, early morning
- ὈΡΘΡΩ — (at) dawn, (at) daybreak, (at) morning
- ὈΡΘΡΩΝ — of dawn, of early morning, of daybreak
- ΟΡΗΘΕΡΟΜΕΝΟΙ — rising early, having risen early, being early, being at dawn
- ΟΡΘΡΙΝΟΣ — early, morning, early in the morning
- ΟΡΘΡΟΙΣ — at dawn, at daybreak, in the early morning, in the morning
- ΟΡΘΡΟΝ — dawn, early morning, at dawn, in the early morning, a dawn, an early morning
- ΟΡΘΡΟΣ — dawn, daybreak, morning twilight, early morning
- ΟΡΘΡΟΥ — of dawn, of early morning, a dawn, an early morning
- ΡΘΡΟΣ — dawn, daybreak, morning, early morning
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