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Strong's #5399 - נֶשֶׁף
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- twilight
- evening twilight
- morning twilight
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2444) psn (נסהפ NShP) AC: Blow CO: Twilight AB: ?: The cool breeze that blows at twilight.
V) psn (נסהפ NShP) - Blow: KJV (2): (vf: Paal) blow - Strongs: H5398 (נָשַׁף)
Nm) psn (נסהפ NShP) - Twilight: Dusk or dawn. KJV (12): twilight, night, dark, dawn - Strongs: H5399 (נֶשֶׁף)
tcm) pfsni (ינסהופ YNShWP) - Yanshoph: An unknown bird. KJV (3): owl - Strongs: H3244 (יַנְשׁוֹף)
tdm) pfsni (ינסהופ YNShWP) - Yanshuph: An unknown bird. KJV (3): owl - Strongs: H3244 (יַנְשׁוֹף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 evening twilight 2 Kings 7:5,7 (compare לַיְלָה 2 Kings 7:12); opposed to בֹּקֶר Isaiah 5:11; time of concealment Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9 (+ עֶרֶב יוֺם, אִישׁוֺן לַיְלָה וַאֲפֵלָה, to emphasize sin that shuns the day); of refreshing Isaiah 21:4 חִשְׁקִיׅ׳(נ; of stumbling, in dim light Isaiah 59:10 (opposed to צָהֳרַיִם), so הָרֵי נָ֑שֶׁף Jeremiah 13:16 (both figurative); כּוֺכְבֵי נִשְׁמּוֺ Job 3:9 the stars of its twilight (i.e. of night of Job's birth). — so וְעַדהָֿעֶרֶב׳מֵהַנּ לְמָחֳרָתָם 1 Samuel 30 Klo Kit HPS (read לְהַחֲרִמָם for ׳לְמָח, We Kit Bu); Th, after Luth, below so Buhl Kex SS; Löhr allows either.
2 morning twilight Job 7:4 (opposed to עֶרֶב). apparently also Psalm 119:147.
נֶשֶׁף m. suff. נִשְׁפּוֹ
(1) the evening twilight, when a colder gale blows (רוּחַ הַיּוֹם Genesis 3:8), Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9; 2 Kings 7:5, 2 Kings 7:7; Jeremiah 13:16 whence darkness, night, Isaiah 5:11, 21:4 59:10. (LXX. σκότος, Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9).
(2) the morning twilight, Job 7:4; 1 Samuel 30:17.