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G4405 is a time noun for morning or early morning. Its two governed forms locate sharply different scenes: chief priests and elders taking counsel against Jesus in Matthew 27:1, and the risen Jesus standing on the shore in John 21:4.
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G4405 is a time noun for morning or early morning. Its two governed forms locate sharply different scenes: chief priests and elders taking counsel against Jesus in Matthew 27:1, and the risen Jesus standing on the shore in John 21:4.
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Early in the morning (1), morning (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 27:1. Its strongest book concentrations include John (1), Matthew (1).
G4405 is a time noun for morning or early morning. Its two governed forms locate sharply different scenes: chief priests and elders taking counsel against Jesus in Matthew 27:1, and the risen Jesus standing on the shore in John 21:4. The noun tells when these events occur. It does not make morning morally good or evil, explain the participants' motives, or create a symbolic movement from darkness to light.
Matthew's morning marker follows the night hearing and precedes Jesus being bound and handed to Pilate. Responsibility belongs to the named leaders and the wider passion narrative; the verse must not be used to blame Jewish people collectively or excuse Roman power. John's marker follows a night without a catch and introduces Jesus on shore before the disciples recognize him. Fatigue, distance, and light may be reasonable context, but the word itself does not state why recognition fails.
Two occurrences support only modest pastoral use. Scripture meets people in ordinary clock time, including hours marked by injustice, exhaustion, uncertainty, and grace. The noun does not establish a holy devotional hour, promise that difficulty will reverse by dawn, or rank early risers above shift workers, caregivers, disabled people, sick people, and those who need sleep. Teachers should honor bodily limits and let each narrative supply its own theology.
Two direct forms mark morning in the passion narrative and the shore appearance. Their shared time does not create a shared moral or symbolic meaning.
When morning came
The phrase dates the leaders' counsel and the transition toward Pilate.
Early in the morning
The phrase dates Jesus' presence on shore after the disciples' night of fishing.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Early morning hour characterized by dawn's first light, marking the start of a new day
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
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G4405 marks two mornings and does no more by itself. In Matthew, morning locates counsel against Jesus and the transition to Pilate. In John, early morning locates the risen Jesus on shore after a night of fishing. The contrast can help a congregation see that ordinary time contains both human injustice and God's faithful presence, but the noun does not create a dawn formula.
Morning prayer can be good without becoming a measure of holiness. An empty night can be painful without proving failure. Sleep, illness, disability, caregiving, shift work, grief, and exhaustion shape people's schedules. Faithful teaching honors those realities, rejects collective ethnic blame in the passion story, and receives grace without promising that every crisis visibly changes by sunrise.
John.21.4
Both governed forms are genitive singular nouns used in temporal expressions. Their shared morphology identifies morning timing, not symbolism, moral evaluation, duration, light level, emotion, or a devotional command.
Morning often marks prayer, judgment, mercy, work, and new action across Scripture, but two G4405 forms do not establish one uniform theology of dawn. Any wider connection remains thematic and passage-governed.
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