Strong H5399נֶ֫שֶׁף
twilight
- Transliteration
- nesheph
- Pronunciation
- neh'-shef
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H5398; properly a {breeze} that {is} (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails): - {dark} dawning of the day ({morning}) {night} twilight.
Detailed definition
1) twilight
1a) evening twilight
1b) morning twilight
1a) evening twilight
1b) morning twilight
In the Bible
Strong H5399 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- twilight6
- night3
- dark1
- day1
- morning1
First verses
- 1 Samuel 30:17And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
- 2 Kings 7:5And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
- 2 Kings 7:7Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
- Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
- Psalms 119:147I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
- Proverbs 7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- Isaiah 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
- Isaiah 21:4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
- Isaiah 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.