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Midnight:
mid'-nit (chatsoth laylah, "middle of the night" (Ex 11:4; Job 34:20; Ps 119:62), chatsi ha-laylah, "the half of the night" (Ex 12:29; Jud 16:3; Ru 3:8), tokh ha-laylah, "the division of the night" and hence, the middle point (1Ki 3:20); meses nuktos (Mt 25:6), or meson tes nuktos, "the middle of the night" (Ac 27:27), mesonuktios, "midnight"; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek, mesonuktion (Ac 16:25, etc.)): In the period before the exile midnight does not seem to have been very accurately determined. The division of the night was into three watches, the middle one of which included midnight. In New Testament times the four-watch division was used where midnight must have been more or less accurately determined.
Written by H. Porter
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| 1 | Strong's Number: g3317 | Greek: mesonuktion |
Midnight:
an adjective denoting "at, or of, midnight," is used as a noun in Mar 13:35; Luk 11:5; Act 16:25; 20:7.
Note: In Mat 25:6 "at midnight" translates the adjective mesos, and noun nux, "night," in the combined adverbial phrase. In Act 27:27 "about midnight" translates an adverbial phrase consisting of kata, "towards," followed by mesos, "middle" and nux, "night," with the article, lit., "towards (the) middle of the night."
See MIDST.
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