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ὥρα

hour

‘hour’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓

G5610 Strong's Greek
hṓra Transliteration
/ho'-rah/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 106 appearances

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About this entry

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ωρα — transliterated hṓra — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “hour.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. With 99 verses in 13 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 8:13. From the same root come ημερα and ωραιος. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
day
Modern gloss
hour
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5610 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 →

99
distinct verses
The word appears in 99 distinct verses.
13 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 8:13
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 8:13.
Revelation 18:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 18:19.
#156
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 156 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 99 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 70 · 71%
  • Acts 11 · 11%
  • Pauline Epistles 7 · 7%
  • General Epistles 1 · 1%
  • Revelation 10 · 10%

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 99 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 70 verses · 71%
  • Johannine 35 verses · 35%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 27 verses · 27%
  • Revelation 10 verses · 10%
  • Pauline corpus 7 verses · 7%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 1%

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: Hour 86×, Time 11×, Hours 3×
  • American Standard Version: Hour 92×, The 10×, Season 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Hour 82×, Time 11×, Hours 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hour 102×, The 22×, At 4×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5610 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hour” 86×
  • “Time” 11×
  • “Hours” 3×
  • “Season” 3×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5610 across 118 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hour” 92×
  • “The” 10×
  • “Season” 4×
  • “Day” 3×
  • “Hours” 3×
  • “Time” 2×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5610 across 103 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hour” 82×
  • “Time” 11×
  • “Hours” 3×
  • “Moment” 3×

Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5610 across 138 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Hour” 102×
  • “The” 22×
  • “At” 4×
  • “Hours” 3×
  • “In” 3×
  • “For” 2×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 4 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.

  1. a certain definite time or season fixed by natural law and returning with the revolving year
  2. the daytime (bounded by the rising and setting of the sun), a day
  3. a twelfth part of the day-time…
  4. any definite time, point of time, moment

Word origin

Origin: apparently a primary word

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TDNT: 20:15,1

Apparently a primary word; an hour (literally or figuratively): - day hour instant season X short [even-] tide (high) time.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 6 distinct written forms G5610 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ὥρα hṓra Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 14:15 33
ὥρᾳ hṓra Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 8:13 28
ὥραν hṓran Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 20:3 22
ὥρας hṓras Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine Matthew 9:22 21
ὡρῶν hōrō̂n Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine Acts 5:7 1
ὧραί hō̂raí Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine John 11:9 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5610, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ωρα appears 49 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 49 verses in 17 books.

49
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
49
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
17 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5610) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5610) 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.

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