Proia means “early” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4405 — millah (“word”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4405 πρωΐα (proia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proia (prow-ee"'-ah) n. 1. day-dawn [feminine of a derivative of G4404 as noun] It has 14 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include morning and early. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
proia (prow-ee"'-ah) n. 1. day-dawn [feminine of a derivative of G4404 as noun] KJV: early, morning Root(s): G4404
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4405. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
early morning
Usage: πρώιος (Rec. -ϊος), -α, -ον (πρωί), [in LXX for בֹּקֶר בַּ לַּ ;] at early morn, early; as subst., ἡ π. (sc. ὥρα, cf. ἡ ὥ. ἡ π., 3Ma.5:24), early morning: Mat.27:1, Jhn.21:4.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4405 (πρωΐα) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, From the light of which the Lord passed on, And as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.
The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; Thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.
For I was plagued all the day, And my reproof was every morning.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.
He beautified their feasts, And set in order the solemn times until the end, That they might praise his holy name, And that the temple might sound from morning.
First 14 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4405.
And in the morning light of God, let the sun arise in the morning, From the light of which the Lord passed on, And as it were from the rain of the tender grass upon the earth.
The nations shall be troubled, and they that inhabit the ends of the earth shall be afraid of thy signs; Thou wilt cause the outgoings of morning and evening to rejoice.
For I was plagued all the day, And my reproof was every morning.
Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, That I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.
My soul has hoped in the Lord; From the morning watch till night.
Woe to thee, O city, whose king is young, And thy princes eat in the morning!
In the morning sow thy seed, And in the evening let not thy hand be slack: For thou knowest not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, Or whether both shall be good alike.
And the vision of the evening and morning that was mentioned is true: and do thou seal the vision; for it is for many days.
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn.
He beautified their feasts, And set in order the solemn times until the end, That they might praise his holy name, And that the temple might sound from morning.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4405, grouped by book.
Proia (Strong's G4405) is a Greek word most simply glossed "early". proia (prow-ee"'-ah) n. 1. day-dawn [feminine of a derivative of G4404 as noun]
This page currently indexes 14 linked usages for Strong's G4405 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4405 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as morning and early. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4405, with linked reader references where each row is available.