Topic
Dawn; Dawning
14 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Joshua 6:15ISBE
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
- Judges 19:26ISBE
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.
- 1 Samuel 30:17ISBE
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
- 2 Kings 7:5ISBE
And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
- 2 Kings 7:7ISBE
Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- Job 3:9ISBE
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 7:4ISBE
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
- Job 41:10ISBE
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
- Job 41:18ISBE
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
- Psalms 119:147ISBE
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
- Matthew 28:1ISBE
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
- Luke 23:54ISBE
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
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- 2 Peter 1:16 ISBE
- 2 Peter 1:19 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 14 references
don: The word means the approach of the morning light, the breaking of the day. There are several words in the Bible that indicate this. nesheph, "twilight" of the morning (Job 7:4; Ps 119:147). The same word is used for evening twilight (1Sa 30:17; 2Ki 7:5,7); penoth ha-boqer, "the turning" of the morning, the change from darkness to light, approach of the morning (Jud 19:26); 'aph`-appe shachar, "the eyelids" of the morning (Job 3:9; 41:18 (10)); aloth ha-shachar, "the ascent" or "rise" of the morning (Jos 6:15); epi-phosko, "to grow light," the approach of the dawn (Mt 28:1; Lu 23:54 margin); diaugazo, "to grow bright", "lustrous" (2Pe 1:19), "until the day dawn" figurative of the Second Coming of Christ (compare 2Pe 1:16).
H. Porter
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.