שְׁפַרְפַר
shᵉpharphar · H8238 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dawn
The time of day before the sun comes up
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 1 word
- בֹּקֶר bôqer · H1242 · morning
- Standard Hebrew noun for morning; often appears in early-morning contexts and phrases like בַּבֹּקֶר בַּבֹּקֶר 'morning by morning' or with עֹד 'while still' to indicate very early time.
Contrasting words 1 word
- עֶרֶב ʻereb · H6153 · evening, mixed rabble, foreigners
- Hebrew noun for evening, the opposite time of day from very early morning; standard temporal antonym in biblical Hebrew.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise
- Greek noun referring to dawn or early morning; used in phrases like ὄρθρου βαθέως (Luke 24:1) 'very early in the morning' which semantically matches the Hebrew idiom.
- πρωΐ prōḯ · G4404 · early morning
- Greek adverb for 'early' or 'in the morning'; often used with intensive modifiers (e.g., λίαν πρωΐ 'very early') to express the same temporal concept as this Hebrew idiom.
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 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8238. shepharpar [שְׁפַרְמָּר] noun [masculine] dawn (ᵑ7 id,; redupl. (K§ 59, 3) from…
[שְׁפַרְמָּר] noun [masculine] dawn (ᵑ7 id,; redupl. (K§ 59, 3) from above √ ?); — emphatic שְׁפַרְמָּרָא Dan 6:20.
שָׁק see שׁוק.
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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