αὐγή, αὐγῆς, ἡ, brightness, radiance (cf. German Auge (eye), of which the tragic poets sometimes use αὐγή, see Pape (or Liddell and Scott; cf. Latinlumina)), especially of the sun; hence, ἡλίου is often added (Homer and following), daylight; hence, ἄχρις (ἄχρι T Tr WH) αὐγῆς even till break of day, Act_20:11 (Polyaen. 4, 18, p. 386 κατά τήν πρώτην αὐγήν τῆς ἡμέρας). (Synonym: see φέγγος, at the end.)

αὐγή augē 1x radiance; daybreak, dawn, Act_20:11

αὐγή , -ῆς , ἡ , [in LXX : Isa_59:9 ( H5054 ), 2Ma_12:9 * ;] 1. brightness. 2. Later (as in MGr .; MM , s.v. ), daylight, dawn: Act_20:11 ( Cremer , 118).† SYN.: φέγγος G5338 ( v. Thayer , s . φ .; DB , iii, 44a; Tr., Syn. , § xlvi).

αὐγή [page 90] The choice of this word as a proper name in Egypt is witnessed by Preisigke 1995, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2008, from a set of sepulchral inscrr. of Alexandria. This is a better warrant of vernacular use than the fulsome laudation with which the Cyzicenes greeted the first acts of Gaius (A.D. 37), Syll 365 .3 , ἐπεὶ ὁ νέοςἭλιος Γάιος (κτλ .) συναναλάμψαι ταῖς ἰδίαις αὐγαῖς καὶ τὰς δορυφόρους τῆς ἡγεμονίας ἠθέλησεν βασιλήας , i.e. surrounded himself with satellites in the shape of vassal kings restored to thrones from which Tiberius expelled them (Dittenberger). Αὐγή is the MGr for dawn, and probably superseded the irregular noun ἕως very early in the Κοινή history : Act_20:11 ἄχρι αὐγῆς is thus good vernacular. So P Leid W xi. 35 ἐφάνη φῶς , αὐγή (cf. iv. 39 ). Cf. also the dimin. αὐγοῦλα in MGr, as in the Klepht ballad (Abbott, Songs p. 26) Κ᾽ ἐκεῖ πρὸς τὰ χαράγματα , κ᾽ ἐκεῖ πρὸς τὴν αὐγοῦλα , And there, towards daybreak, towards early morn.

αὐγή "the light of the sun, sunlight", and in pl. "his rays or beams", Hom. ; ὑπ᾽ αὐγὰς ἠελίοιο, i.e. still alive, Od. ; so, αὐγὰς ἐσιδεῖν, λεύσσειν, βλέπειν Theogn. , Aesch. , Eur. ; but, ὑπ᾽ αὐγὰς λεύσσειν or ἰδεῖν τι to hold up to "the light" and look at, id=Eur. ; κλύζειν πρὸς αὐγάς to rise surging towards "the sun", Aesch. :—metaph., βίου δύντος αὐγαί "life's setting "sun", " id=Aesch. :— αὐγή "the dawn, day-break", NTest. generally, "any bright light", as of fire, Hom. ; of lightning, Il. ; of the eyes, Soph. ; hence αὐγαί, like Lat. lumina, the eyes, Eur. "any gleam" on the surface of bright objects, "sheen", αὐγὴ χαλκείη Il. ; αὐγὰ πέπλου Eur.

αὐγή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX: Isa.59:9 (נְגֹהָה), 2Ma.12:9 * ;] __1. brightness __2. Later (as in MGr.; MM, see word), daylight, dawn: Act.20:11 (Cremer, 118).† SYN.: φέγγος (see Thayer, s. φ.; DB, iii, 44a; Tr., Syn., § xlvi). (AS)