Moment
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
lit. means "indivisible" (from a, negative, and temno, "to cut;" Eng., "atom"); hence it denotes "a moment," 1—Corinthians 15:52 .
"a prick, a point" (akin to stizo, "to prick"), is used metaphorically in Luke 4:5 , of a "moment," with chronos, "a moment (of time)."
Galatians 6:17
the equivalent of parauta, immediately (not in the NT), i.e., para auta, with ta pragmata understood, "at the same circumstances," is used adjectivally in 2—Corinthians 4:17 and translated "which is but for a moment;" the meaning is not, however, simply that of brief duration, but that which is present with us now or immediate (para, "beside, with"), in contrast to the future glory; the clause is, lit., "for the present lightness (i.e., 'light burden,' the adjective elaphron, "light,' being used as a noun) of (our) affliction." This meaning is confirmed by its use in the Sept. of Psalm 70:3 , "(let them be turned back) immediately," where the rendering could not be "for a moment."
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
(2): ( n.) An essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.
(3): ( n.) A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
(4): ( n.) Impulsive power; force; momentum.
(5): ( n.) Importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.
(6): ( n.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
King James Dictionary [3]
MO'MENT, n. L. momentum. This word is contracted from motamentum, or some other word,the radical verb of which signified to move, rush, drive or fall suddenly, which sense gives that of force. The sense of an instant of time is from falling or rushing, which accords well with that of meet.
1. The most minute and indivisible part of time an instant.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 1 Corinthians 15
2. Force impulsive power.
--Touch with lightest moment of impulse,
His free will.
Little used but hence,
3. Importance in influence or effect consequence weight or value.
It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment to us than the others.
Holman Bible Dictionary [4]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
mō´ment ( רגע , regha‛ , "a wink"; ἄτομος , átomos , "an atom," στιγμή , stigmḗ , "a point," παραυτίκα , parautı́ka , immediately," "forthwith"): "Moment" is not used in Scripture for a division of time, but for an instant of time, as the wink or twinkling of the eye ( Exodus 33:5; Numbers 16:21 , Numbers 16:45; Lamentations 4:6; 1 Corinthians 15:52 ), or for a short period of time ( Job 20:5; Psalm 30:5; Isaiah 26:20; 2 Corinthians 4:17 ). The division of the hour into sixty minutes was certainly known in Babylonia, and the Jews were made acquainted with it, at least during the captivity, but they do not seem to have adopted it very extensively.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
( רֶגִע , Re'Ga, the Wink of an eye, i.e., an Instant; Στιγμή , A Point of time, Luke 4:5).
