Word Summary
hēmiōrion: half an hour
Original Word: ἡμιώριονTransliteration: hēmiōrion
Phonetic Spelling: (hay-mee-o'-ree-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: half an hour
Meaning: half an hour
Strong's Concordance
half an hour.
From the base of hemisu and hora; a half-hour -- half an hour.
see GREEK hemisu
see GREEK hora
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2256: ἡμιώριονἡμιώριον and (
L T Tr WH)
ἡμιωρον (cf. Kühner, § 185, 6, 2; (
Jelf, § 165, 6, 1 a.)),
ἡμιωριου,
τό (from
ἠμί and
ὥρα, cf.
τό ἡμικοτυλιον,
ἡμιμοιριον,
ἡμικοσμιον,
ἡμιχοινικιον,
ἡμιωβόλιον, etc.),
half an hour:
Revelation 8:1. (
Strabo 2, p. 133;
Geoponica; others (cf.
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).)