ὥρα
hour
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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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 verses where G5610 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Revelation. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Revelation
- Revelation 3:3 ὥραν n acc sg fem Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
- Revelation 9:15 ὥραν n acc sg fem The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
- Revelation 17:12 ὥραν n acc sg fem The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- a certain definite time or season fixed by natural law and returning with the revolving year
- the daytime (bounded by the rising and setting of the sun), a day
- a twelfth part of the day-time…
- any definite time, point of time, moment
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
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
- Genesis 18:10 ὥρα
- Exodus 9:18 ὥρα
- Leviticus 16:2 ὥρα
- Numbers 9:2 ὥρα
- Deuteronomy 11:14 ὥρα
- Joshua 11:6 ὥρα
- Ruth 2:14 ὥρα
- 1 Samuel 25:6 ὥρα
- 2 Samuel 24:15 ὥρα
- 1 Kings 19:2 ὥρα
- 2 Kings 4:16 ὥρα
- Ezra 18:3 ὥρα
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.
- Genesis 18:10 ὥρα He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 18:14 ὥρα Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
- Genesis 29:7 ὥρα He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
- Exodus 9:18 ὥρα Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
- Exodus 10:4 ὥρα Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
- Exodus 13:10 ὥρα You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
- Exodus 18:22 ὥρα Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
- Exodus 18:26 ὥρα They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
- Leviticus 16:2 ὥρα and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- Numbers 9:2 ὥρα "Moreover let the children of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season.
- Deuteronomy 11:14 ὥρα that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
- Deuteronomy 33:13 ὥρα Of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, For the deep that couches beneath,
- Deuteronomy 33:14 ὥρα For the precious things of the fruits of the sun, For the precious things of the growth of the moons,
- Deuteronomy 33:16 ὥρα For the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it, The good will of him who lived in the bush. Let [the blessing] come on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.
- Joshua 11:6 ὥρα Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
- Ruth 2:14 ὥρα At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
- 1 Samuel 25:6 ὥρα and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
- 2 Samuel 24:15 ὥρα So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
- 1 Kings 19:2 ὥρα Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
- 1 Kings 21:6 ὥρα He said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you [another] vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.
- 2 Kings 4:16 ὥρα He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
- 2 Kings 4:17 ὥρα The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
- 2 Kings 7:1 ὥρα Elisha said, Hear you the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be [sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
- 2 Kings 7:18 ὥρα It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;
- 2 Kings 10:6 ὥρα Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
- Ezra 18:3 ὥρα
- Job 5:26 ὥρα You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 15:32 ὥρα It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.
- Job 15:33 ὥρα He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.
- Job 24:1 ὥρα "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
- Job 24:6 ὥρα They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Job 36:28 ὥρα Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
- Job 38:23 ὥρα Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
- Isaiah 52:7 ὥρα How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns!
- Daniel 4:10 ὥρα Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 4:12 ὥρα The leaves of it were beautiful, and the fruit of it much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed from it.
- Daniel 4:19 ὥρα Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.
- Daniel 5:5 ὥρα In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
- Daniel 8:17 ὥρα So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
- Daniel 8:19 ὥρα He said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
- Daniel 9:21 ὥρα yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
- Daniel 11:6 ὥρα At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
- Daniel 11:35 ὥρα Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
- Daniel 11:40 ὥρα At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
- Daniel 11:45 ὥρα He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
- Daniel 12:1 ὥρα "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
- Daniel 12:13 ὥρα But go you your way until the end be; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your lot, at the end of the days.
- Hosea 2:11 ὥρα I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
- Zechariah 10:1 ὥρα Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
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.
