King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G3317
Transliteration: mesonyktion
Phonetic Spelling: (mes-on-ook'-tee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: at midnight
Meaning: at midnight
μεσονύκτιον, μεσονυκτίου, τό (neuter of the adjective μεσονύκτιος in Pindar, et al., from μέσος and νύξ, νυκτός), midnight: μεσονυκτίου, at midnight (Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26), Mark 13:35 (here T Tr WH accusative; cf. Winers Grammar, 230 (215f); Buttmann, § 131, 11); Luke 11:5; κατά τό μεσονύκτιον, about midnight, Acts 16:25; μέχρι μεσονυκτίου, until midnight, Acts 20:7. (The Sept.; Hippocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus, Strabo, Lucian, Plutarch; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 53 (Winer's Grammar, p. 23 c.).)
Word Summary
mesonyktion: at midnight
Original Word: μεσονύκτιονTransliteration: mesonyktion
Phonetic Spelling: (mes-on-ook'-tee-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: at midnight
Meaning: at midnight
Strong's Concordance
midnight. Neuter of compound of mesos and nux; midnight (especially as a watch) -- midnight.
see GREEK mesos
see GREEK nux
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3317: μεσονύκτιονμεσονύκτιον, μεσονυκτίου, τό (neuter of the adjective μεσονύκτιος in Pindar, et al., from μέσος and νύξ, νυκτός), midnight: μεσονυκτίου, at midnight (Winers Grammar, § 30, 11; Buttmann, § 132, 26), Mark 13:35 (here T Tr WH accusative; cf. Winers Grammar, 230 (215f); Buttmann, § 131, 11); Luke 11:5; κατά τό μεσονύκτιον, about midnight, Acts 16:25; μέχρι μεσονυκτίου, until midnight, Acts 20:7. (The Sept.; Hippocrates, Aristotle, Diodorus, Strabo, Lucian, Plutarch; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 53 (Winer's Grammar, p. 23 c.).)