Dawn
שְׁפַרְפָּרStrong’s H8238shepharphar (she-phar-phar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shepharphar is the Aramaic word usually translated “at dawn”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.”
Meaning
- Dawn, early morning
How it's translated
- at dawn 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
שְׁפַרְפָּר shepharphar · dawn
dawn, early morning
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.