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G1773 ἔννυχον (énnychon)

Greek
Adverb
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Quick Definition

ἔννυχος, ον Adv in the night

Strong's Definition

(adverbially) by night

Derivation: neuter of a compound of G1722 (ἐν) and G3571 (νύξ);

KJV Usage: before day

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | νύξ

67.193 · Time · Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour

at night, in the night pertaining to the period between sunset and sunrise In some languages it may be necessary to translate ἔννυχα λίαν in MRK 1:35 as ‘before sunrise’ or ‘long before daylight’ or ‘before the heavens open.’

MRK 1:35

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἔννυχος, ἔννυχον (νύξ), nightly, nocturnal (Homer, Pindar, Tragg.). Neuter adverbially, by night: Mar_1:35, where L T Tr WH have neuter plural ἔννυχα (cf. Winers Grammar, 463 (432); Buttmann, § 128, 2).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἔννυχος ennychos 1x

nocturnal, while still dark, Mk. 1:35*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἔννυχος, -ον

(< νύξ), [in LXX: III Mac 5:5 * ;] (in cl. poët.; prose in late Gk. only)

nightly. Neut., adverbially, ἔννυχα (Rec. -χον), by night: Mk 1:35.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἔννυχος. For this poetic adj. (but see 3 Macc 55 and «“Ἔξορ. 110 ed. Halm), which is used adverbially in its only occurrence in the NT (Mk 18° ἔννυχα NBCD a/.), Herwerden (Zex. s.v.) cites a metrical inscr. of v/A.D., 7G VII. 584° ὅταν σε λάβῃ ἔννυχος ἠώς.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἔννυχος (ennuchos) — at night. ἔννῠχ-ος, ον, = {ἐννύχιος}, ἄγγελος ἦλθε.. ἔννυχος [Refs 8th c.BC+]: neuter plural as adverb, ἔννυχα λίαν ἀναστάς [NT]: comparative -ώτερον[Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. epithet of Hades, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἔννυχος, -ον (νύξ), [in LXX: 3Ma.5:5 * ;] (in cl. poët.; prose in late Gk. only) nightly. Neut., adverbially, ἔννυχα (Rec. -χον), by night: Mrk.1:35.† (AS)

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