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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Dawn
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, ne'sheph, the breathing or breeze of the cooler part of the day; prop. the evening “twilight” (as usually rendered), hence the morning twilight or “dawning” (Job_7:4; Psa_119:147 : “twilight,” 1Sa_30:17; 2Ki_7:5; 2Ki_7:7); poet.
òִôְòִôִּéַí
, aphappa'yim, eye-lids (as elsewhere rendered) of the morn, i.e. day-break (Job_3:9); also
ôָּðָä
, to turn, spoken of the change of darkness into light (Jdg_19:26); and
òָìָä
, to ascend, of the lifting of night's shades (Jos_6:15). In Greek
ἐðéöώóêù
, to grow light (Mat_28:1; hence also of the approaching Sabbath, Luk_23:54); and
äéáõãÜæù
, to become lustrous, as through a crevice (2Pe_1:19). SEE DAY.