Word study
Morning
3 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: morning, mornings. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “morning” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- בֹּקֶר bôqermorningtranslated this way 187 times of its 192 uses · Strong’s H1242Noun · Translated: morning 151, next morning 19, Early the next morning 5, Early in the morning 3Full study and all 179 verses →
Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.
Exodus 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- שָׁכַם shâkamstart, rise, earlytranslated this way 6 times of its 65 uses · Strong’s H7925Verb · Translated: got up early 13, got 11, again and again 8, get up early 5Full study and all 64 verses →
Joshua 8:14 When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
Judges 7:1 Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
- מׇחֳרָת mochŏrâththe morrowtranslated this way 2 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s H4283Noun · Translated: next day 20, day 7, next 3, next morning 2Full study and all 32 verses →
Judges 6:38 And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew — a bowlful of water.
1 Samuel 5:3 When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
Greek words (New Testament)
- πρωΐ prōḯearly in the morning, at dawntranslated this way 9 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s G4404Adverb · Translated: morning 7, Early 3, Early in the morning 1, early morning 1Full study and all 12 verses →
Matthew 16:3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
Mark 1:35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and went out to a solitary place to pray.
- πρωΐα prōḯaearly morningtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4405Noun · Translated: morning 1, Early in the morning 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Matthew 27:1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
John 21:4 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not recognize that it was Jesus.
- ὄρθρος órthrosearly dawn, day-breaktranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G3722Noun · Translated: morning 1, Early in the morning 1, daybreak 1Full study and all 3 verses →
Luke 24:1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
John 8:2 Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.
- πρωϊνός prōïnósbelonging to the morningtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G4407Adjective · Translated: morning 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.