Dawn
שַׁ֫חַרStrong’s H7837shachar (sha-char)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachar is the Hebrew word usually translated “dawn”, “like dawn” and “charm away it”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”
Meaning
- Dawnat dawn (as adverb)
How it's translated
- the dawn 10
- dawn 9
- like dawn 2
- to charm away it 1
- like the dawn 1
- at dawn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 4
- Genesis 3
- Job 3
- Hosea 2
- Joshua 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 32:24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
- Genesis 32:26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
- Joshua 6:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
- Judges 19:25But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
- 1 Samuel 9:26And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
- Nehemiah 4:21So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫חַר shachar · dawn
1) dawn 1a) dawn 1b) at dawn (as adverb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dawn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DAWN, verb intransitive
- To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
- To begin to open or expand; to begin to show intellectual light, or knowledge; as, the genius of the youth begins to dawn
- To glimmer obscurely.
- To begin to open or appear.
All definitions and other forms of “dawn”
DAWN, noun
1. The break of day; the first appearance of light, in the morning.
- First opening or expansion; first appearance of intellectual light; as the dawn of genius, intellect, or mental powers.
- Beginning; rise; first appearance; as the dawn of time.
- A feeble or incipient light; first beams.
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.