נֶשֶׁףnesheph/neh'-shef/
HebrewH539912 occurrences (KJV)
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
KJV renders it: dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
Where it appears
- 1 Sam 30:17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
- 2 Kgs 7:5They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, no man was there.
- 2 Kgs 7:7Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
- Job 3:9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
- Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.
- Ps 119:147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
- Prov 7:9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
- Isa 5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
- Isa 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
- Isa 59:10We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
- Jer 13:16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.