Dawn
Dawn
נֶשֶׁŠ, ne'sheph, the breathing or breeze of the cooler part of the day; prop. the evening "twilight" (as usually rendered), hence the morning twilight or "dawning" (Job 7:4; Ps 119:147: "twilight," 1Sa 30:17; 2Ki 7:5,7); poet. עִפעִפִּיַם, aphappa'yim, eye-lids (as elsewhere rendered) of the morn, i.e. day-break (Job 3:9); also פָּנָה, to turn, spoken of the change of darkness into light (Jg 19:26); and עָלָה, to ascend, of the lifting of night's shades (Jos 6:15). In Greek ἐπιφώσκω, to grow light (Mt 28:1; hence also of the approaching Sabbath, Lu 23:54); and διαυγάζω, to become lustrous, as through a crevice (2Pe 1:19). SEE DAY.
