מִשְׁחָר
mishchâr · H4891 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dawn
The first appearance of light in the sky in the early morning
ExamplesPsalm 110:3 Your people will volunteer freely on the day of Your power; In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֶחֶםwomb 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- בֹּקֶר bôqer · H1242 · morning
- The standard and most common Hebrew word for morning; מִשְׁחָר is a rare poetic variant while בֹּקֶר is the ordinary term
- נֶשֶׁף nesheph · H5399 · twilight, dusk, dawn
- Denotes twilight periods including dawn/early morning twilight, overlapping semantically with the morning-time reference of מִשְׁחָר (mishchâr, H4891)
Contrasting words 2 words
- עֶרֶב ʻereb · H6153 · evening, mixed rabble, foreigners
- Standard lexical opposite: evening is the opposite time of day from morning
- לַיִל layil · H3915 · night
- Night stands in lexical opposition to morning as the dark period versus the daylight period
In the other Testament 2 words
- πρωΐ prōḯ · G4404 · early morning
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew morning-time terms; both denote the early part of the day
- ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise
- Greek term for dawn/early morning, closely equivalent to Hebrew morning terminology
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- The word denotes morning, a time of day.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4891. mishchar מִשְׁחָר noun [masculine] dawn; — מ ׳מֵרֶחֶם Psa 110:3, but מ probably…
מִשְׁחָר noun [masculine] dawn; — מ ׳מֵרֶחֶם Psa 110:3, but מ probably dittograph, read שַׁחַר (Du, compare Buhl).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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