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'Dawn' in the Bible

And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters {who are staying with you}, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city."

Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."

Then on the seventh day they rose early at dawn, and they marched around the city in this manner seven times. [It was] only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.

But the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man seized his concubine and brought [her] out to them; and they had intercourse with her, and they abused her all night until the morning; they let her go at the approach of dawn.

They got up early, {and as dawn was breaking}, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, "Get up, so that I can send you away." So Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside.

So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out.

He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people [were attentive] to the book of the law.

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see [the] eyelids of dawn

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.

so that [the] inhabitants of [the] farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.

Your people {will volunteer} in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from [the] womb of [the] dawn, you will have the dew of your youth.

If I lift up [the] wings of [the] dawn, [and] I alight on [the] far side of [the] sea,

"Who [is] this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, {bright as the sun}, {overwhelming as an army with banners}?"

for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.

Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising [is] sure like [the] dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like [the] spring rain that waters [the] earth.

So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of the evil of your wickedness; at dawn, the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed.

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

Yahweh [is] righteous in her midst; he does not do wickedness. {Morning by morning} he renders his judgment; at dawn he does not fail, but an evil one knows no shame.

Now on the first [day] of the week, at very early dawn, they came back to the tomb bringing the fragrant spices which they had prepared.

So he went up and broke bread, and [when he] had eaten and talked for a long [time], until dawn, then he departed.

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נשׁף 
Nesheph 
twilight , night , dark , dawning of the morning, dawning of the day
Usage: 12

עפעף 
`aph`aph 
Usage: 10

διαυγάζω 
Diaugazo 
Usage: 1

ἐπιφώσκω 
Epiphosko 
begin to dawn , draw on
Usage: 2