Lexical Summary augē: brightness, daylight Original Word: αὐγήTransliteration: augē Phonetic Spelling: (owg'-ay) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: brightness, daylight Meaning: brightness, daylight Strong's Concordance break of day. Of uncertain derivation; a ray of light, i.e. (by implication) radiance, dawn -- break of day. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 827: αὐγήαὐγή, 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, Acts 20:11 (Polyaen. 4, 18, p. 386 κατά τήν πρώτην αὐγήν τῆς ἡμέρας). (Synonym: see φέγγος, at the end.) |
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