ὄρθρος
dawn
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3722 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
John 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“dawn” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ορθρος (órthros). It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than a third of its appearances fall in Luke. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 24:1. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3722 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Johannine 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Early in the morning 1×, Very early in the morning 1×
- American Standard Version: Dawn 1×, Daybreak 1×, Early in the morning 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Daybreak 1×, Early in the morning 1×, Morning 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dawn 1×, Daybreak 1×, Early in the morning 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3722 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3722 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3722 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3722 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- daybreak, dawn
- at early dawn, at daybreak, early in the morning
Word origin
Derived from ορος (óros) (G3735) — mountain.
From the same as G3735 ; dawn (as sun rise rising of light); by extension morn : - early in the morning.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3722 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὄρθρου órthrou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 24:1 | 2 |
| ὄρθρον órthron | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 5:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3722, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ορεγομαι orégomai G3713 to stretch out
- ορεινος oreinós G3714 mountainous
- ορθος orthós G3717 straight
- ορνις órnis G3733 bird
- ουρανος ouranós G3772 heaven
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ορθρος appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 14 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:15 ὄρθρος
- Exodus 19:16 ὄρθρος
- Joshua 6:15 ὄρθρος
- Judges 16:2 ὄρθρος
- 1 Samuel 9:26 ὄρθρος
- Ezra 14:15 ὄρθρος
- Esther 5:12 ὄρθρος
- Psalms 56:9 ὄρθρος
- Proverbs 7:18 ὄρθρος
- Song of Solomon 6:10 ὄρθρος
- Jeremiah 7:25 ὄρθρος
- Hosea 6:3 ὄρθρος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3722) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:15 ὄρθρος When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 32:27 ὄρθρος He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
- Exodus 19:16 ὄρθρος It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Joshua 6:15 ὄρθρος It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times.
- Judges 16:2 ὄρθρος [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 19:26 ὄρθρος Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.
- 1 Samuel 9:26 ὄρθρος They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
- Ezra 14:15 ὄρθρος
- Esther 5:12 ὄρθρος Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow also am I invited by her together with the king.
- Psalms 56:9 ὄρθρος Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
- Psalms 62:7 ὄρθρος With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
- Psalms 107:3 ὄρθρος And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
- Psalms 118:148 ὄρθρος
- Psalms 138:9 ὄρθρος
- Proverbs 7:18 ὄρθρος Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
- Proverbs 23:35 ὄρθρος "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
- Song of Solomon 6:10 ὄρθρος Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Beautiful as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?
- Jeremiah 7:25 ὄρθρος Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
- Jeremiah 25:4 ὄρθρος Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear),
- Jeremiah 33:5 ὄρθρος while [men] come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:
- Jeremiah 39:33 ὄρθρος
- Jeremiah 42:14 ὄρθρος saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
- Jeremiah 51:4 ὄρθρος They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
- Hosea 6:3 ὄρθρος Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."
- Hosea 10:15 ὄρθρος So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
- Joel 2:2 ὄρθρος A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.
- Amos 4:13 ὄρθρος For, behold, he who forms the mountains, And creates the wind, And declares to man what is his thought; Who makes the morning darkness, And treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3722) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
