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# נֶשֶׁף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5399

**twilight** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

twilight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5399/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫שֶׁף: n.m. twilight [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5399/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. twilight (proposes twilight-breeze, cf. לְרוּחַ הַיּוֹם Gn 3:8; NH id.; 𝔗 נְשַׁף, נִשְׁפָּא);—נ׳ abs. 1 S 30:17 +, נָ֑שֶׁף Je 13:16; cstr. Is 21:4; sf. נִשְׁפּוֹ Jb 3:9;— evening twilight 2 K 7:5, 7 (cf. לַיְלָה v 12); opp. בֹּקֶר Is 5:11; time of concealment Jb 24:15 Pr 7:9 (+ עֶרֶב יוֹם, אִישׁוֹן לַיְלָה וַאֲפֵלָה, to emphasize sin that shuns the day); of refreshing Is 21:4 (נ׳ חִשְׁקִי); of stumbling, in dim light Is 59:10 (opp. צָהֳרַיִם), so הָרֵי נָ֑שֶׁף Je 13:16 (both fig.); כּוֹכְבֵי נִשְׁפּוֹ Jb 3:9 the stars of its twilight (i.e. of night of Job’s birth).—so מֵהַנּ׳ וְעַד־הָעֶרֶב לְמָחֳרָתָם 1 S 30:17 Klo Kit HPS (read לְהַחֲרִמָם for לְמָח׳, We Kit Bu); Th, after Luth, sub 2, so Buhl Lex SS; Löhr allows either. morning twilight Jb 7:4 (opp. עֶרֶב), appar. also ψ 119:147.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: twilight (9); its twilight (1); of twilight (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.9/#tree)

בְּנֶֽשֶׁף־בְּעֶ֥רֶב י֑וֹם בְּאִישׁ֥וֹן לַ֝֗יְלָה וַאֲפֵלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* at twilight in.\[the\] evening of.\[the\].day in.\[the\] middle of.\[the\].night and darkness

*JPS 1917:* In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

[Psalms 119:147](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.147/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.147/#tree)

קִדַּ֣מְתִּי בַ֭נֶּשֶׁף וָאֲשַׁוֵּ֑עָה לִדְבָרְךָ֥ יִחָֽלְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* I.am.early in the twilight and I cried.for.help for word your I.wait

*JPS 1917:* I rose early at dawn, and cried; I hoped in Thy word.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5399.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5399/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).