Lexicon nesheph: twilight Original Word: נֶ֫שֶׁףPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: nesheph Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-shef) Short Definition: twilight NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom nashaphDefinitiontwilight NASB Translationdawn (2), dusky (1), evening (1), twilight (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs נֶ֫שֶׁף noun masculine twilight (properly twilight-breeze, compare לְרוּחַ הַיּוֺם Genesis 3:8; Late Hebrew id.; ᵑ7 נְשֶׁף, נִשְׁמָּא; — ׳נ absolute 1 Samuel 30:17 +, נָ֑שֶׁף Jeremiah 13:16; construct Isaiah 21:4; suffix נִשְׁמּוֺ Job 3:9; — 1 evening twilight 2 Kings 7:5,7 (compare לַיְלָה 2 Kings 7:12); opposed to בֹּקֶר Isaiah 5:11; time of concealment Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9 (+ עֶרֶב יוֺם, אִישׁוֺן לַיְלָה וַאֲפֵלָה, to emphasize sin that shuns the day); of refreshing Isaiah 21:4 חִשְׁקִיׅ ׳(נ; of stumbling, in dim light Isaiah 59:10 (opposed to צָהֳרַיִם), so הָרֵי נָ֑שֶׁף Jeremiah 13:16 (both figurative); כּוֺכְבֵי נִשְׁמּוֺ Job 3:9 the stars of its twilight (i.e. of night of Job's birth). — so וְעַדהָֿעֶרֶב ׳מֵהַנּ לְמָחֳרָתָם 1 Samuel 30 Klo Kit HPS (read לְהַחֲרִמָם for ׳לְמָח, We Kit Bu); Th, after Luth, below so BuhlKex SS; Löhr allows either. 2 morning twilight Job 7:4 (opposed to עֶרֶב). apparently also Psalm 119:147.
Strong's dark, dawning of the day morning, night, twilight From nashaph; properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails) -- dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight. see HEBREW nashaph |
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