mor´ning : There are several Hebrew and Greek words which are rendered "morning," the most common in Hebrew being בּקר , bōḳer , which occurs 180 times. It properly means "the breaking forth of the light," "the dawn," as in Genesis 19:27; Judges 19:8 , Judges 19:25 , Judges 19:27 . Another word with the same meaning is שׁחר , shaḥar (Genesis 19:15; Nehemiah 4:21; Isaiah 58:8 ). משחר , mishḥar ("womb of the morning," Psalm 110:3 ) is a poetical term derived from. the same root. See HIND OF THE MORNING . נגהּ , nōghah , נגהא , naghhā' (Daniel 6:19 (Hebrew 20)), mean "brightness." השכּם , hashkēm , comes from השׁכּים , hishkı̄m , "to load an animal" (for a journey), and as the nomads are accustomed to do this early in the morning it came to mean early morning (1 Samuel 17:16 ). See BETIMES .
In the New Testament ὄρθρος , órthros , is properly "dawn," and is used for early morning ( John 8:2; Acts 5:21 ), and πρωΐ́α , prōı́a signifies the same Matthew 27:1 . πρωΐ́ , prōí , "early," is an adverb and means early in the morning Mark 1:35 . Morning as an adjective is ὀρθρινός , orthrinós Revelation 22:16 , or πρωΐνός , prōinós (1 Esd 1:11; 5:50; Revelation 2:28; Revelation 22:16 ).
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