שַׁחַר shachar

Meaning

dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)

In the King James Version: day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.

Derivation: from H7836 (שָׁחַר);

Where it is used

• Genesis 19:15 At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
• Genesis 32:24 So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Genesis 32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
• Joshua 6:15 Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
• Judges 19:25 But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
• 1 Samuel 9:26 They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul got ready, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
• Nehemiah 4:21 So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
• Job 3:9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
• Job 38:12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
• Job 41:18 His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
• Psalms 57:8 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
• Psalms 108:2 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
• Psalms 139:9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
• Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
• Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
• Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
• Isaiah 47:11 But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
• Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
• Hosea 6:3 So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Hosea 10:15 Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
• Joel 2:2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
• Amos 4:13 For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
• Jonah 4:7 When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.