Lexical Summary nesheph: twilight Original Word: נֶשֶׁףTransliteration: nesheph Phonetic Spelling: (neh'-shef) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: twilight Meaning: a breeze, dusk Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H5399. nesheph נֶ֫שֶׁף noun masculine twilight (properly twilight-breeze, compare הַיּוֺם לְרוּחַ Genesis 3:8; Late Hebrew id.; נִשְׁמָּא נְשֶׁף, ᵑ7; — ׳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 7:12); opposed to בֹּקֶר Isaiah 5:11; time of concealment Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9 (+ וַאֲפֵלָה לַיְלָה אִישׁוֺן יוֺם, עֶרֶב, to emphasize sin that shuns the day); of refreshing Isaiah 21:4 ׳(נ חִשְׁקִיׅ; of stumbling, in dim light 59:10 (opposed to צָהֳרַיִם), so נָ֑שֶׁף הָרֵי Jeremiah 13:16 (both figurative); נִשְׁמּוֺ כּוֺכְבֵי Job 3:9 the stars of its twilight (i.e. of night of Job's birth). — so לְמָחֳרָתָם ׳מֵהַנּ וְעַדהָֿעֶרֶב 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. |
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