Word

שַׁחַר

shachar · H7837 · Hebrew · 23 occurrences

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Meanings

dawn

The first appearance of light in the sky in the early morning

Examples
Genesis 19:15 When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Joshua 6:15 Then on the seventh day they got up early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same way seven times; only on that day did they march around the city seven times.
Judges 19:25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and brought her outside to them; and they raped her and abused her all night until morning, then let her go at the approach of dawn.
darkness

Literally dawn, hence the state in which there is almost no light, so that no one can readily see and colors and shapes cannot yet be distinguished

Examples
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As dawn is spread over the mountains, So there is a great and mighty people; There has never been anything like it, Nor will there be again after it To the years of many generations.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

9 occurrences in 2 groups

עָלָהto go up 8
פָּרַשׂto spread out 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

עוּרto awake, to stir up 2
יָדַעto know 1
עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אַיִןthere is no, not 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

כlike/as 4
כְּמוֹas, like 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 4 groups

עַפְעַףeyelids 2
בֵּןson 1
אַיֶּלֶת(female) fallow deer 1
כָּנָףwing 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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In the other Testament 1 word

ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise: Greek ὄρθρος specifically denotes the dawn/daybreak moment as the rising of light, directly corresponding to Hebrew שַׁחַר's core sense of dawn/morning light; both terms focus on the early morning period when light first appears.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Time002002002010: The word marks the time of dawn, as in Genesis 19:15's "when morning dawned" and Joshua 6:15's "they got up early at the dawning of the day."
Dark002001001017: The word can describe the still-dim hour just before full daylight, as in Judges 19:25's "they let her go at the approach of dawn" — the transitional edge between night and day.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׁחַר shâchar · H7835 · to turn black, to search, to look for · 1×שַׁחַרshachar · H7837שָׁחַר shâchar · H7836 · to turn black, to search, to look for · 12×שָׁחֹר shâchôr · H7838 · black, dark · 6×מִשְׁחָר mishchâr · H4891 · dawn · 1×שְׁחוֹר shᵉchôwr · H7815 · soot · 1×שַׁחֲרוּת shachărûwth · H7839 · black hair, youth · 1×שְׁחַרְחֹרֶת shᵉcharchôreth · H7840 · dark (of skin) · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7837. shachar שַׁ֫חַר noun masculineGen 19:15 dawn; — absolute ׳שׁ 1Sa 9:26 +, שָׁ֑חַר…

H7837. shachar
שַׁ֫חַר noun masculineGen 19:15 dawn; — absolute ׳שׁ 1Sa 9:26 +, שָׁ֑חַר Jdg 19:25 +; suffix שַׁחְרָךְ Isa 47:11 (but read probably שַׁחֲדָהּ); — dawn, with עָלָה rise Gen 19:15; Gen 32:25, Gen 32:27; Jos 6:15 (all J), Jdg 19:25; 1Sa 9:26; Neh 4:15; Jon 4:7; opposed to עֵיפָה Amo 4:13; as adverb at dawn Psa 57:9 = Psa 108:3; ׳עַפְעַמֵּישֿׁ Job 3:9; Job 41:10; ׳כַּנְפֵישֿׁ Psa 139:9; Psa 110:3 read probably שׁ ׳רֶחֶם (see מִשְׁחָר below); ׳שׁ also Job 38:12, in simile Hos 6:3 (but read נִמְצָאֵהוּ כֵּן כְּשַׁחֲרֵנוּ as infinitive, see following, GieBeitr. 208 We Now GASm Marti), Isa 58:8; Son 6:10; Joe 2:2 (al. blackness, || וַעֲרָפֶל עָנָן); ׳בֶּןשֿׁ Isa 14:12 (of star, figurative of royal splendour; — literal as myth RSK 300); שׁ לוֺ ׳אֵין Isa 8:20 is obscure, so also ׳בַּשּׁ Hos 10:15 (We in storm, i.e. בַּשַּׂעַר). — Isa 47:11 usually, but improbably, dawn (origin) of calamity: JHMich Hi Ew Rö (Thes) De Di and others charm away (RVm) (Arabic enchant (WeHeid. 2. 159, 200), enchantment [= Sabean סחר DHMHofmus. 24. 1]); but see [ שָׁחַד].

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

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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