ὥρα,
ὥρας,
ἡ, from
Homer down, the
Sept. for
עֵת and in Daniel for
שָׁעָה;
1. a certain definite time or season fixed by natural law and returning with the revolving year; of the seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter, as
ὥρα τοῦ θέρους,
πρώϊμος καί ὄψιμος,
χειμερια, etc.; often in the Greek writings (cf. Liddell and Scott, under A. I. 1 c., and on the inherent force of the word especially
Schmidt, chapter 44 § 6f).
2. the daytime (bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun), a day:
ὥρα παρῆλθεν,
Matthew 14:15;
ἤδη ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (or
γινομένης) (
A. V. when the day was now far spent),
Mark 6:35 (see
πολύς, c. (but note that in the example from
Polybius there cited
πολλῆς ὥρας means
early));
ὀψίας (
ὀψέ T Tr marginal reading
WH text)
ἤδη οὔσης τῆς ὥρας (
WH marginal reading brackets
τῆς ὥρας),
Mark 11:11 (
ὀψέ τῆς ὥρας,
Polybius 3, 83, 7;
τῆς ὥρας ἐγιγνετο ὀψέ,
Demosthenes, p. 541, 28).
3. a twelfth part of the daytime, an hour (the twelve hours of the day are reckoned from the rising to the setting of the sun,
John 11:9 (cf.
BB. DD., under the word Hour;
Riehm's HWB, under the word Uhr)):
Matthew 24:36;
Matthew 25:13;
Mark 13:32;
Mark 15:25,
33;
Luke 22:59;
Luke 23:44;
John 1:39(40);
John 4:6;
19:14; with
τῆς ἡμέρας added,
Acts 2:15; of the hours of the night,
Luke 12:39;
Luke 22:59; with
τῆς νυκτός added,
Acts 16:33;
Acts 23:23; dative
ὥρα, in stating the time when (
Winers Grammar, § 31, 9;
Buttmann, § 133, 26):
Matthew 24:44;
Mark 15:34;
Luke 12:39f; preceded by
ἐν,
Matthew 24:50;
John 4:52;
Acts 16:33; accusative to specify when (
Winers Grammar, § 32, 6;
Buttmann, § 131, 11):
John 4:52;
Acts 10:3;
1 Corinthians 15:30;
Revelation 3:3; also to express duration (
Winers Grammar, and
Buttmann's Grammar, at the passages cited):
Matthew 20:12 (cf.
ποιέω, I. 1 a. at the end);
Matt. 26:40;
Mark 14:37; preceded by prepositions:
ἀπό,
Matthew 27:45;
Acts 23:23;
ἕως,
Matthew 27:45;
μέχρι,
Acts 10:30;
περί with the accusative
Acts 10:9, improperly used for
a very short time:
μία ὥρα,
Revelation 18:10 (
Rec. ἐν,
WH marginal reading accusative), 17 (16), 19;
πρός ὥραν (
A. V. for a season),
John 5:35;
2 Corinthians 7:8;
Galatians 2:5 (here
A. V. for an hour);
Philemon 1:15;
πρός καιρόν ὥρας (
for a short season),
1 Thessalonians 2:17.
4. any definite time, point of time, moment:
Matthew 26:45; more precisely defined — by a genitive of the thing,
Luke 1:10;
Luke 14:17;
Revelation 3:10;
Revelation 14:7,
15; by a genitive of the person
the fit or opportune time for one, Luke 22:53;
John 2:4; by a pronoun or an adjective:
ἡ ἄρτι ὥρα (
A. V. this present hour),
1 Corinthians 4:11;
ἐσχάτῃ ὥρα,
the last hour i. e. the end of this age and very near the return of Christ from heaven (see
ἔσχατος, 1, p. 253b),
1 John 2:18 (cf. Westcott at the passage);
αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρα, that very hour,
Luke 2:38 (here
A. V. (not
R. V.)
that instant);
Luke 24:33;
Acts 16:18;
Acts 22:13;
ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ ὥρα, in that very hour,
Luke 7:21 (
R G L text);
Luke 12:12;
20:19;
ἐν τῇ ὥρα ἐκείνῃ,
Matthew 8:13;
ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρα,
Matthew 10:19 (Lachmann brackets the clause);
Mark 13:11; (
Luke 7:21 L marginal reading
T Tr WH);
Revelation 11:13;
ἀπ' ἐκείνης τῆς ὥρας,
John 19:27;
ἀπό τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης,
Matthew 9:22;
Matthew 15:28;
Matthew 17:18; by a conjunction:
ὥρα ὅτε,
John 4:21,
23;
John 5:25';
John 16:25;
ἵνα (see
ἵνα, II. 2 d.),
John 12:23;
John 13:1;
John 16:2,
32; by
καί and a finite verb,
Matthew 26:45; by a relative pronoun
ὥρα ἐν ἤ,
John 5:28; by the addition of an accusative with an infinitive
Romans 13:11 (
οὔπω ὥρα συναχθῆναι τά κτήνη,
Genesis 29:7; see examples in the Greek writings, from
Aeschylus down, in
Passow, under the word, vol. ii., p. 2620a; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B. I. 3); so the Latin
tempus est,
Cicero, Tusc. 1, 41, 99; ad Attic 10, 8). Owing to the context
ὥρα sometimes denotes
the fatal hour, the hour of death:
Matthew 26:45;
Mark 14:35,
41;
John 12:27;
John 16:4 (here
L Tr WH read
ἡ ὥρα αὐτῶν i. e. the time when these predictions are fulfilled);
John 17:1;
ἡ ὥρα τίνος, 'one's hour', i. e. the time when one must undergo the destiny appointed him by God: so of Christ,
John 7:30;
John 8:20, cf.
John 16:21. (On the omission of the word see
ἐξαυτῆς (
ἀφ' ἧς? cf., p. 58b top),
Winers Grammar, § 64, 5, under the word;
Buttmann, 82 (71); on the omission of the article with it (e. g.
1 John 2:18), see
Winers Grammar, § 19, under the word).
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