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Morning

בֹּ֫קֶרStrong’s H1242

boqer (bo-qer)

Appears in 189 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Boqer is the Hebrew word usually translated “morning”, “mornings” and “from the morning”. It appears in 189 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Daniel 8:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. Morning, break of daymorning · morrow, next day, next morning
How it's translated
  • in the morning 105
  • morning 40
  • the morning 32
  • to the morning 10
  • and in the morning 6
  • to the mornings 4
  • from the morning 3
  • for the morning 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Exodus 31
  • Genesis 19
  • 1 Samuel 17
  • Psalms 16
  • Numbers 11
  • Judges 10

29 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 189 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 3
16:416:728:67
1 Kings 3
3:2117:618:26
1 Chronicles 3
9:2716:4023:30
2 Chronicles 4
2:413:1120:2031:3
Ezra 1
3:3
Esther 2
2:145:14
Proverbs 2
7:1827:14
Ecclesiastes 2
10:1611:6
Jeremiah 2
20:1621:12
Lamentations 1
3:23
Daniel 2
8:148:26
Hosea 3
6:47:613:3
Amos 2
4:45:8
Micah 1
2:1
Zephaniah 2
3:33:5
Hebrew dictionary

בֹּ֫קֶר boqer · morning

1) morning, break of day 1a) morning 1a1) of end of night 1a2) of coming of daylight 1a3) of coming of sunrise 1a4) of beginning of day 1a5) of bright joy after night of distress (fig.) 1b) morrow, next day, next morning

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “morning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MORN'ING, noun

  1. The first part of the day, beginning at twelve o'clock at night and extending to twelve at noon.
  2. The first or early part.
All definitions and other forms of “morning”

    MORN'ING, adjective

    Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as morning dew; morning light; morning service.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.