Twilight
נֶ֫שֶׁףStrong’s H5399nesheph (ne-sheph)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nesheph is the Hebrew word usually translated “at twilight”, “twilight” and “from the twilight”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Twilightevening twilight · morning twilight
How it's translated
- at twilight 3
- twilight 3
- in the twilight 2
- from the twilight 1
- twilight its 1
- twilight of 1
- like the twilight 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫שֶׁף nesheph · twilight
1) twilight 1a) evening twilight 1b) morning twilight
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “twilight” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TWI'LIGHT, noun
- The faint light which is reflected upon the earth after sunset and before sunrise; crepuscular light.
- Dubious or uncertain view; as the twilight or probability.
All definitions and other forms of “twilight”
TWI'LIGHT, adjective
Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; shaded.
- Seen or done by twilight
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.