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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Hours
Thompson Chain Reference
• Third Hour
• Hour, Christ's
• Hour
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Three Hours' Service
• Hours of Prayer
• Canonical Hours
American Tract Society
• Hours
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Hour, the Last
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Canonical Hours
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Hour
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Hour (Figurative)
• Hour
King James Dictionary
• Hour
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Hour
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Scriptural Hours
• Prayer, Forty Hours'
• Hours, Scriptural
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Hours
• Hour
People's Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Hour
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Hour
Webster Dictionary
• Kilowatt Hour
• Hours
• Hour
•   (only first 3 shown)
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Hours
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Canonical Hours
• Hour
• Hour Angle
•   (only first 3 shown)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Hour
• Hours of Prayer
• Prayer, Hours of
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Hours
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Canonical Hours
• Holy Hours
• Hour
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Three Hours' Agony
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Canonical Hours
• Forty Hours' Devotion
Lexicons
• ܫܳܥܬ݂ܳܐ
• ἡμιώριον , ἡμίωρος
• πῆχυς
• ὥρα
• שָׁעָה

the twenty-fourth part of a civil day, the twelfth part of a natural day or night, a space of time of sixty minutes' duration. The word is derived through the O. Fr. ure, ore, house, mod. heure, from Lat. hora, Gr. %spa, season, time of day, hour (see Calendar).