Quick Definition
ὥρα, ας, ἡ n.f. an hour, season
Strong's Definition
apparently a primary word; an "hour" (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: day, hour, instant, season, X short, (even-)tide, (high) time
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ἡμίωρον
67.1 · Time · A Point of Time without Reference to Other Points of Time: Time, Occasion, Ever, Often
time, occasion points of time consisting of occasions for particular events In a number of languages there is no general term for ‘time’ or ‘occasion.’ In some contexts it is simply not necessary to have such a term. For example, in rendering MAT 13:30 one may translate ‘when the harvest comes, I will say to the reapers’ or ‘when people begin to harvest, I will say to the reapers.’ In other contexts, a term which normally refers to some unit is employed in a generic sense, as in the case of Greek ὥρα which means literally ‘hour’ but is frequently used as a generic expression for a point of time, as in MAT 8:13. In ACT 7:17 χρόνος may often be rendered by a generic expression such as ‘day,’ for example, ‘when it was almost the day for God to keep his promise.’ In the case of MAT 26:45, the nearness of the time may be indicated as ‘very soon the Son of Man will be handed over.’`
Though it seems quite ordinary in English for one to speak of ‘time coming’ or ‘... drawing near,’ this type of figurative usage is impossible in many languages. The equivalent may be simply ‘will soon be’ or ‘is about to happen.’ The expression οὔπω ἥκει ἡ ὥρα μου (literally ‘my time has not yet come’) in JHN 2:4 denotes that it is not yet the occasion for a particular event (see καιρός in JHN 7:8 and compare JHN 7:10) but that it will soon be. In these contexts the expression may be rendered as ‘there is still time’ or ‘I will soon do it.’ In JHN 7:30 and JHN 8:20 (οὔπω ἐληλύθει ἡ ὥρα αὐτοῦ ‘his time has not yet come’) the reference is to the occasion of his eventual arrest, implying that it will indeed happen.
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67.148 · Time · Indefinite Units of Time: Age, Lifetime, Interval, Period
a while an indefinite unit of time which is relatively short For languages which have no term for an indefinite unit of time which is relatively short, it may be necessary to approximate the time span in the context, for example, ‘for several months’ or possibly ‘for a year or so.’
67.199 · Time · Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour
hour one-twelfth of a day, measured from sunrise to sunset (in any one day the hours would be of equal length, but would vary somewhat depending on the time of the year) Since the hours were counted beginning at sunrise, the seventh hour would be approximately one o’clock in the afternoon. For other references to numbered hours, see 60.50, 60.56, 60.57, and 60.58.
MAT 8:13 · MAT 14:15 · MAT 17:18 · MAT 18:1 · MAT 20:3 · MAT 20:5 · MAT 20:9 · MAT 20:12 · MAT 24:36 · MAT 24:44 · MAT 24:50 · MAT 25:13 · MAT 26:40 · MAT 27:45 · MAT 27:45 · MAT 27:46 · MRK 11:11 · MRK 13:32 · MRK 14:37 · MRK 15:25 · MRK 15:33 · MRK 15:33 · MRK 15:34 · LUK 12:39 · LUK 12:40 · LUK 12:46 · LUK 14:17 · LUK 22:59 · LUK 23:44 · LUK 23:44 · JHN 1:39 · JHN 4:6 · JHN 4:52 · JHN 4:52 · JHN 4:53 · JHN 11:9 · JHN 19:14 · ACT 2:15 · ACT 3:1 · ACT 5:7 · ACT 10:3 · ACT 10:9 · ACT 10:30 · ACT 16:18 · ACT 16:33 · ACT 19:34 · ACT 23:23 · 1CO 15:30 · REV 9:15 · REV 11:13 · REV 17:12 · REV 18:10 · REV 18:17 · REV 18:19
67.77 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Units of Time: Daybreak, Midday, Midnight, Late
Collocation: ὥρα πολλή
late, very late (an idiom, literally: much hour) a point of time relatively late in view of the circumstances (late in the afternoon or in the evening)
67.42 · Time · A Point of Time with Reference to Other Points of Time: Before, Long Ago, Now, At the Same Time, When, About, After
Collocation: ἡ ἄρτι ὥρα
at this very moment, at this very time (an idiom, literally: the present hour) an emphatic reference to a point of time which is simultaneous with another point of time
1 Some terms which designate a unit of time in their so-called literal meanings may also have the meaning of point of time, as in the case of ὥρα, which in MAT 26:45 is essentially an indicator of a point of time, but in 67.148, it is treated as a unit of time. The same may occur in the case of ἡμέρα, which as a unit of time is treated in 67.142, but in the expression day of the Lord it indicates essentially a point of time.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὥρα, -as, ἡ, fr. Hom. down, Sept. for nyy and in Dan. for NYW; 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, mpwipos K. ὄψιμος, χειμερία, ete.; often in the Grk. writ. [ef. L. ἀπά S.s.v. A. I. 1 α., and on the inherent force of the word esp. Schmidt ch. 44 §6 sq. ]. 2. the daytime (bounded by the rising and the setting of the sun), a day: Spa παρῆλθεν, Mt. x:V. 15; ἤδη ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (or γινομένης), [ A. V. σ΄ ὥρα when the day was now far spent}, Mk. vi. 35 (see πολύς, c. [but note that in the ex. fr. Polyb. there cited πολλῆς ὥρας means early]); ὀψίας [ὀψὲ T Tr τσ. WH txt.] ἤδη οὔσης τῆς Spas [WH mrg. br. τῆς ὥρας], Mk. xi. 11 (ὀψὲ τῆς ὥρας, Polyb. 3, 83, 7; ris ὥρας ἐγίγνετο ὀψέ, Dem. p. 541, 28). 3. α twelfth part of the day-time, ἡ an hour, (the twelve hours of the day are reckoned from the rising to the setting of the sun, Jn. xi. 9 [cf. BB. DD. 5. v. Hour; Riehm’s HWB. 8. v. Uhr]): Mt. xxiv. 36; xxv.13; ΜΚ. xiii. 32; xv. 25,33; Lk. xxii. 59; xxiii. 44; Jn.i.39 (40), iv. 6; xix. 14; with τῆς ἡμέρας added, Acts ii. 15; of the hours of the night, Lk. xii. 39; xxii. 59; with τῆς νυκτός added, Acts xvi. 33; xxiii. 23; dat. Spa, in stating the time when [W. § 31, 9; B. § 133, 26]: Mt. xxiv. 44; Mk. xv. 34; LK. xii. 39 sq.; preceded by ἐν, Mt. xxiv. 50; Jn. iv. 52; Acts xvi. 33; accus. to specify when [W. § 82,6; Β. § 131, 11]: Jn. iv.52; Acts x.3;1Co.xv. 30; Rev. iii.3; also to express duration [W. and B. ll. ee.]: Mt. xx. 12 [ef. ποιέω, I. la. fin.]; xxvi. 40; Mk.xiv.37; preceded by prepositions: ἀπό, Mt. xxvii. 45; Acts xxiii. 23; ἕως, Mt. xxvii. 45; μέχρι, Acts x. 30; περί with the aceus. Acts x. 9. improp. used for a very short time: μιᾷ Spa, Rev. xviii. 10 [Ree. ἐν, WH mrg. ace.], 17 (16), 19; πρὸς ὥραν, [A. V. for a season], Jn. v. 35; 2 Co. vii. 8; Gal. ii. 5 [here A. V. for an hour]; Philem. 15; πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας, [for a short season], 1 Th. ii. 17. 4. any definite time, point of time, moment: Mt. xxvi. 45 ; more precisely defined —by a gen. of the thing, Lk.i.10; xiv.17; Rev. iii. 10; xiv. 7,15; by agen. of the pers. the jit or opportune time for one, Lk. xxii. 53; Jn.ii.4; by a pronoun or an adj.: ἡ ἄρτι Spa, [A. V. this present hour], 1 Co. iv. 11; ἐσχάτη ὥρα, the last hour 1.e. the end of this age and very near the return of Christ from heaven (see ἔσχατος, 1 p. 253), 1 Jn. ii. 18 [ef. Westcott ad loc.]; αὐτῇ τῇ Spa, that very hour, Lk. ii. 38 [here A.V. (not R.V.) that instant]; xxiv. 33; Acts xvi. 18; xxii.13; ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ Spa, in that very hour, Lk. vii. 21 [R G Ltxt.]; xii. 12; xx. 19; ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, Mt. viii. 13; ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ, Mt. x. 19 [Lehm. br. the el.]; Mk. xiii. 11; [Lk. vii. 21 L mrg. Τ Tr WH]; Rev. xi. 13; ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνης τῆς ὥρας, Jn. xix. 27; ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης, Mt. ix. 22; xv. 28; xvii.18; by a conjunction: ὥρα ὅτε, In. iv. 21, 23; y.25: xvi. 253 ἵνα (see ἵνα, IT. 2 d.), Jn. xii. 233; xiii. 1; xvi. 2,32; by καί and a finite verb, Mt. xxvi. 45; by a relative pron. ὥρα ἐν 7, Jn. v.28; by the addition of an ace. with an inf. Ro. xiii. 11 (οὔπω ὥρα συναχθῆναι τὰ κτήνη, Gen. xxix. 7; see exx. in the Grk. writ., fr. Aeschyl. down, in Passow 8. v. vol. ii. p. 2620°; [L. and S. s.v. B. I. 3]; so the Lat. tempus est, Cie. Tuse. 1, 41, 99; ad Att. 10,8). Owing to the context ὥρα sometimes denotes the fatal hour, the hour of death : Mt. xxvi. 45; Mk. xiv. 35,41; Jn. xii. 27; xvi. 4 [here L Tr WH read ἡ ὥρα αὐτῶν 1. 6. the time when these predictions are fulfilled]; xvii. 1; ἡ ὥρα τινός, ‘one’s hour’, i. 6. the time when one must undergo the destiny appointed him by God: so of Christ, Jn. vii. 30; viii. 20, ef. xvi. 21. [On the omission of the word see ἐξαυτῆς, (ἀφ᾽ ns? οὗ p 58” top), ὟΥ. 8 64, 5 5. ν. ; Β. 82 (11); on the omission of the art. with it (e.g. 1 Jn. ii. 18), see W. §19s. v.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὥρα hōra 106x
a limited portion of time, marked out by part of a settled routine or train of circumstances; a season of the year; time of day, Mt. 14:15; Mk. 6:35; 11:11; an hour, Mt. 20:3; Jn. 11:9; in NT an eventful season, 1 Jn. 2:18 (2x); Rev. 3:10; 14:7; due time, Jn. 16:21; Rom. 13:11; a destined period, hour, Mt. 26:45; Mk. 14:35; Jn. 2:4; 7:30; a short period, Mt. 26:40; Jn. 5:35; 2 Cor. 7:8; Gal. 2:5; 1 Thess. 2:17; Phlm. 15; a point of time, time, Mt. 8:13; 24:42; Lk. 2:38
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὥρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for עֵת and in Da for שָׁעָה ;]
any time or period fixed by nature, esp. a season (Hom., Hdt., Plat., al.).
A part of the day, and esp. a twelfth part of day or night, an hour: Mt 24:36, Mk 13:32, Ac 10:3, al.; accus. in ans. to "when"? (M, Pr., 63, 215; Bl., § 34, 8), Jo 4:52, Ac 10:3, 30 I Co 15:30, Re 3:3; acc. of duration, Mt 20:12 26:40, Mk 14:37; inexactly, πρὸς ὥραν, for a season, for a time, Jo 5:35, II Co 7:8, Ga 2:5; πρὸς καιρὸν ὥρας, for a short season (ICC, in l.), I Th 2:17.
A definite point of time, time, hour: Mt 26:45; c. gen. rei, Lk 1:10 14:17, Re 3:10, al.; c. gen. pers., Lk 22:53, Jo 2:4 7:30, al.; ἡ ἄρτι ὥρα, I Co 4:11; ἐσχάτη ὥ., I Jo 2:18; seq. ὅτε, Jo 4:21, 23 5:25 16:25; ἵνα, Jo 12:23, al.; c. acc. et inf., Ro 13:11 (cf. DB, ext., 475b, 476b).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὥρα (1) ‘an hour”: P Oxy II. 2357 (4.15. 20-50) ὥρᾳ τετάρτῃ τῆς νυκτός, Ρ Ryl II. 234° (ii/A.p.) apa a, ““αἱ the first hour,’’ P Hamb I. 96% (date of a horoscope—a.p. 145) ὀγδόου ᾿Αντωνείνου Φαρμοῦτι κατ᾽ ἀρχαίους 18 ὥρᾳ τρίτῃ νυκτός, P Ryl II. 1091! (A.D. 235) τῇ KH τοῦ ὄντος Μεσορὴ μηνὸς ὥρας ἀρχομένης τετάρτης, and P Oxy IX. 12147 (v/A.D.) &p(as) £, “at 7 o'clock.” With ἡ ὥρα = “the fatal hour,” as in Mt 264, cf. P Leid Wvi-27 (ji/iii a.p.) (=II. p. 103) βοήθησον ἐν ἀνάγκαις, ἐλεήμων ἐν ὥραις βιαίος (/. βιαίαις). (2) As the hour was the shortest period of time known to the ancients, ὥρα came to be used much as we use “in one second,’’ ‘‘in one moment,” “instantly,” e.g. P Tebt II. 4114 (ii/A.D.) ἅμα τῷ λαβεῖν μου τὴν ἐπιστολὴν αὐτῇ ὥρᾳ ἄνελθε, ‘immediately after receiving my letter, come up instantly ” (Edd.), and similarly P Oxy IX. 1193? (iv/a.D.) : cf. Lk 28, and for the added significance that this usage gives to Rev 1715 see Ramsay Zeaching, p. 57. In P Iand I. 421 (vi/a.D.) ὥρᾳ = “now” stands alone: the editor can supply no parallel. For the acc. denoting a point of time, as in Jn 45%, Rev 3%, cf. BGU IV. 10791 (a.p. 41) , ὠρύομαι (= Selections, p. 39) ἀκολούθει δὲ ΤΤτολλαρίωνι πᾶσαν ὥραν, “stick to Ptollarion constantly,” and see Proleg. pp. 63, 245. (3) The word = “age’”’ in P Lond 2411 (B.c. 163) (=I. p. 32, UPZ i. p. 117), where a mother represents that her daughter Tathemis has reached the age when circumcision was usual—thv Ταθῆμιν ὥραν ἔχειν ὡς ἔθος ἐστὶ[ν] τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις περι[[τε]]τέμνεσθαι, and similarly in P Ryl 11. ro1® (4.p. 63) a request for the examination of a youth—épay [ἔχοντα τῆς εἰς το]ὺς ἐφήϊ βΊους εἰσκρίσεως, “having reached the age for admission as an ephebus” (Edd.). (4) For prepositional phrases we may cite the following— P Oxy III. 523% (ii/a.D.) (= Selections, p. 97) an invitation to dinner ἐν τοῖς KAav8({ov) Σαραπίω(νος) τῆι ts ἀπὸ ὥρας 8, “in the house of Claudius Serapion on the 16th at 9 o'clock ᾽᾿ : 76. VI. 93527 (iii/A.D.) διὸ γίράφ]ω σοι... διὰ ὥρας γράφ[ῃ9] po[t] π[ε]ρὶ τούτου, ‘I write to you therefore to ask you to write to me at once about him (?)’’ (Edd.): 26. I, 41°9 (iii/iv A.D.) is (2. els) ὥρας πᾶσι τοῖς τὴν πόλιν φιλοῦσιν, “Hurrah for all who love the city’’ (Edd.): BGU IV. 120841 (B.C, 27-26) ἐν τῆι ὥραι ἐπεχώρησεν : P Oxy XVI. 1844? (vi/vii A.D.) εὐθέως καὶ κατ᾽ αὐτὴν τὴν ὥραν, “ immediately and at the very moment”’: P Lips I. 105) (i/ii a.p.) (= Chrest. I. p. 276) ὃν μετὰ μίαν ὥραν πέμψω, ‘ which (sc. “fa reckoning ’’) I shall send within an hour ’’: P Oxy IV. 804 (horoscope—a.D. 4) περὶ ὥρα(ν) Ὑ τῆς ἡμέρα(ς), 2d. ΝΠ. 1114*4 (A.D. 237) περὶ ὥραν τρίτην, “at the third hour of the day” (Ed.): P Gen I. 524 (c. a.p. 346) χαρτίον καθαρὸν μὴ εὑρὼν πρὸς τὴν ὥραν els τοῦ[τ]ογ ἔγραψα, “not having found a clean sheet of paper at the moment, I wrote on this”: and P Oxy II. 396 (late i/A.p.) ἐπεὶ δὲ μετρίως εἶχε ὑπὸ τὴν ὥραν ἐνεσημάνθη οὐκ εἴσχυσέ σοι yp[a]} par.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὥρα (hōra) — hour. ὥρα,
__CIonic dialect ὥρη, ἡ: Epic dialect genitive plural ὡράων, Ionic dialect ὡρέων: locative plural ὥρασι, (which see) any period, fixed by natural laws and revolutions, whether of the year, month, or day (the sense 'day' is implied in the compound ἑπτάωρος, which see), νυκτός τε ὥραν καὶ μηνὸς καὶ ἐνιαυτοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C.I in [Refs 8th c.BC+], part of the year, season; mostly in plural, the seasons, ὅτε τέτρατον ἦλθεν ἔτος καὶ ἐπήλυθον ὧραι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ μεταλλάσσουσι αἱ ὧραι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάσαις ὥραις at all seasons, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χαλεπὴ ὥ. a bad season, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἡ ὥ. αὕτη this season, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὰς ὥρας according to the seasons, [Refs 8th c.BC+] __C.I.a spring, ἔαρος.. ὥρη [Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Trag. and Attic dialect, ἦρος ὥρα or ὧραι, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C.I.b summer, θέρεος ὥρη [Refs 8th c.BC+] __C.I.c winter, χείματος ὥρη [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χειμῶνος ὥρᾳ in winter, [Refs 5th c.BC+] also names three seasons, [Refs]; an Egyptian division of the year, accusative to [Refs 1st c.BC+]—A fourth first appears in [Refs 7th c.BC+], θέρος καὶ χεῖμα κὠπώραν τρίταν καὶ τέτρατον τὸ ϝῆ; and in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τετράμορφοι ὧραι E(?).[Refs]: later, seven seasons are named, ἔαρ, θέρος, ὀπώρα, φθινόπωρον, σπορητός, χειμών, φυταλιά [Refs 2nd c.AD+] __C.I.2 especially prime of the year, springtime, ὅσα φύλλα καὶ ἄνθεα γίγνεται ὥρῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+] __C.I.2.b in historians, the campaigning season, τὸν τῆς ὥρας εἰς τὸν περίπλουν χρόνον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially in the phrase ὥρα ἔτους, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἔτους ὥραν next season, [Refs 1st c.AD+] __C.I.3 the year generally, τῆς ὥρης μέσον θέρος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν τῇ πέρυσιν ὥρᾳ last year, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; εἰς ὥρας next year, [LXX+5th c.BC+]hereafter, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κἠς ὥρας κἤπειτα next year and for ever, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; compare ὥρασιν. __C.I.4 in plural, of the climate of a country, as determined by its seasons, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (here perhaps three harvest seasons); τὰς ὥ. κάλλιστα κεκρημένας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; climatic conditions, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C.II time of day, νυκτὸς ἐν ὥρῃ [Refs]; αἱ ὧ. τῆς ἡμέρας the times of day, i.e. morning, noon, evening, and night, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δι᾽ ὥραν ἡμέρας by the time of day (fixed for meetings), [Refs 4th c.BC+] or νυκτός, ἑκάστης ἡμέρας μέχρι τρίτου μέρους ὥρας [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψευσθεὶς τῆς ὥ. having mistaken the hour, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐποίησαν ἔξω μέσων νυκτῶν τὴν ὥραν, i.e. they prolonged the day beyond midnight, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; πολλῆς ὥρας it being late, [NT+2nd c.BC+]; ἄχρι πολλῆς ὥρας till late in the day, [Refs 1st c.BC+] __C.II.b duration, interval or lapse of time, μετὰ ἱκανὴν ὥραν τοῦ κατενεχθῆναι τὸν πέλεκυν ἐξακούεται ἡ τῆς πληγῆς φωνή [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; length of time, term, Ἄρτεμις ἐννέ᾽ ἐτῶν δεκάδας βίον Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ ἔκχρησεν, τρεῖς δ᾽ ὥραι(date.) ἔτι προσέθηκε Προνοίη [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐπὶ πολλὴν ὥ. for a long time, [Refs 1st c.AD+] __C.II.2 the νυχθήμερον was probably first divided into twenty-four hours by [Refs 2nd c.BC+] (equinoctial hours) ἕκαστον τῶν ἄστρων ἢ δύνει ἢ ἀνατέλλει [Refs 1st c.BC+] __C.II.2.b in ordinary life the day from sunrise to sunset was divided into twelve equal parts called ὧραι (ὧραι καιρικαί when it was necessary to distinguish them from the ὧραι ἰσημεριναί, see at {καιρικός} 2 c), ἡμέρα ἡ.. δωδεκάωρος, τουτέστιν ἡ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς μέχρι δύσεως [NT+2nd c.AD+]; the time of day was commonly given without the Article, ὥρᾳ ᾱ [Refs 2nd c.AD+], τρίτης ὥρας [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ὀγδόης, ἐνάτης, δεκάτης ὥ., [Refs]; but we have περὶ τὴν τρίτην ὥραν, περὶ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην, [NT+1st c.BC+]; ἐρωτᾷ σε Χαιρήμων δειπνῆσαι.. αὔριον, ἥτις ἐστὶν ιε, ἀπὸ ὥρας θ ¯ -to-morrow the 15th at 9 o'clock, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] as we say 'at the eleventh hour', [Refs 1st c.AD+] __C.II.2.c τὰ δυώδεκα μέρεα τῆς ἡμέρης παρὰ Βαβυλωνίων ἔμαθον οἱ Ἕλληνες [Refs 5th c.BC+] ὧραι ἰσημερινα; these double hours (Assyr. kaš-bu) are called ὧραι by [Refs 4th c.BC+] __C.III Astrology texts, degree of the zodiac rising at the nativity compare (ὡρονόμος [Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἐξ ὥρης ἐσορῶν Ζεὺς Ἑρμείην Jupiter in the ascendant in aspect with Mercury, [Refs] __B the fitting time or season for a thing (mostly without Article, even in Attic dialect), frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; but with Article, τῆς ὥ. ἐνθυμεῖσθαι [Refs]: frequently in later writers, τῆς ὥρας ἐπιγενομένης [Refs 2nd c.BC+] __B.2 with genitive of things, ὥρη κοίτοιο, μύθων, ὕπνου, the time for bed, tale-telling, or sleep, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; so εἰς ἀνδρὸς ὥραν ἥκουσα time for a husband, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥρη ἀρότου, ἀμήτου, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; καρπῶν ὧραι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ὥραν εἶχον παιδεύεσθαι I was of age to.. [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.3 ὥρα [ἐστίν] with infinitive, it is time to do a thing, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὥρη εὕδειν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; so also in Trag. and Attic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative et infinitive, ὥρα δ᾽ ἐμπόρους καθιέναι ἄγκυραν [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with dative et infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in these phrases the infinitive present is almost universal; the aorist, however, occurs in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; and the perfect in ὥρα πεπαῦσθαι [Refs 1st c.AD+]: sometimes the infinitive must be supplied, οὐδέ τί σε χρή, πρὶν ὥρη, καταλέχθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὥρα κἠς οἶκον (i. e. ἰέναι εἰς οἶκον) [Refs 3rd c.BC+] __B.4 in various adverbial usages, τὴν ὥρην at the right time, [Refs 5th c.BC+] at that hour, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ταύτην τὴν ὥραν at this season, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥραν οὐδενὸς κοινὴν θεῶν at an hour.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτῆς ὥρας immediately, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἐν ὥρῃ in due season, in good time, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also αἰεὶ εἰς ὥρας in successive seasons, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς τὰς ὥρας for all time, [Refs 5th c.BC+] hurrah for.., [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οἱ ὧδε χέζοντες εἰς ὥ. μὴ ἔλθοιεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὶν ὥρας [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II metaphorically, the spring-time of life, the bloom of youth, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἐνὥ., ={πρεσβύτερος}, [Refs]; παυσαμένου τῆς ὥ. probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λήγειν ὥρας, opposed to ἀνθεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II.2 frequently involving an idea of beauty, φεῦ φεῦ τῆς ὥρας τοῦ κάλλους [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀφ᾽ ὥρας ἐργάζεσθαι quaestum corpore facere, [Refs 1st c.AD+]“Tim..” 14,compare [Refs 5th c.BC+]“Mem..” 1.6.13, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —then, __B.II.2.b generally, beauty, grace, elegance of style, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of beauty in general, χάρις καὶ ὥρα [Refs 1st c.AD+] __B.II.3 Ὥρα personified, like{Ἥβη}, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.III ={τὰ ὡραῖα}, the produce of the season, fruits of the year, ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐτρέφοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+] __C personified, αἱὯραι, the Hours, keepers of heaven's cloudgate, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; and ministers of the gods,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of Aphrodite, [Refs]; also Ὧ. Διονυσιάδες, Καρνειάδες, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; three in number, Eunomia, Dike, Eirene, daughters of Zeus and Themis, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; worshipped at Athens, [Refs 1st c.BC+]