נֹגַהּ
nôgahh · H5053 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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at dawn
The time of the first appearance of light in the morning
ExamplesDaniel 6:19 Then the king got up at dawn, at the break of day, and went in a hurry to the lions’ den.
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
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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 Hebrew word for 'morning', the daybreak period. Both refer to the same time of day, though בֹּקֶר is far more common (>200 occurrences) while נֹגַהּ (nôgahh, H5053) appears only once with this temporal sense.
- שַׁחַר shachar · H7837 · dawn, darkness
- Hebrew noun for 'dawn' or 'morning', specifically the break of day. Like נֹגַהּ (nôgahh, H5053), it refers to the early morning period, though שַׁחַר often emphasizes the dawn itself.
Contrasting words 1 word
- עֶרֶב ʻereb · H6153 · evening, mixed rabble, foreigners
- The standard Hebrew word for 'evening', the opposite time of day from morning. These are true lexical temporal opposites, representing the beginning and end of the daily cycle.
In the other Testament 2 words
- πρωΐ prōḯ · G4404 · early morning
- Greek adverb/noun for 'morning' or 'early (in the morning)', the standard NT term for the morning time period that directly parallels the temporal sense of נֹגַהּ (nôgahh, H5053).
- ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise
- Greek noun for 'dawn' or 'early morning', referring to the daybreak/morning period, functionally equivalent to the temporal meaning of נֹגַהּ (nôgahh, H5053).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- Daniel 6:19 recounts that “the king got up at dawn, at the break of day, and went in a hurry to the lions' den.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5053. nogah [נ֫גַהּ] noun [feminine] brightness, daylight (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew…
[נ֫גַהּ] noun [feminine] brightness, daylight (ᵑ7 Syriac; Biblical Hebrew id.); — emphatic בְּנָגְהָא (K§ 54 c), 1) Dan 6:20.
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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