Lexical Definition

‎שַׁחַר‎ shachar (shakh'-ar) dawn ^H:N-M
from ‎שָׁחַר‎

day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.

• dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)

1) dawn
1a) dawn
1b) at dawn (as adverb)

See Greek: ὄρθρος · πρωΐ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: שָׁחַד

‎שַׁ֫חַר‎ noun masculine^{Gen 19:15} dawn; — absolute ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ 1Sam 9:26 +, ‎שָׁ֑חַר‎ Judg 19:25 +; suffix ‎שַׁחְרָךְ‎ Isa 47:11 (but read probably ‎שַׁחֲדָהּ‎); — dawn, with ‎עָלָה‎ rise Gen 19:15; Gen 32:25*; Gen 32:27*; Josh 6:15 (all J), Judg 19:25; 1Sam 9:26; Neh 4:15*; Jonah 4:7 opposed to ‎עֵיפָה‎ Amos 4:13 as adverb at dawn Ps 57:9* = Ps 108:3* ‎׳‎‎עַפְעַפֵּישֿׁ‎ Job 3:9; Job 41:10* ‎׳‎‎כַּנְפֵישֿׁ‎ Ps 139:9; Ps 110:3 read probably ‎׳‎‎רֶחֶם שׁ‎ (see ‎מִשְׁחָר‎ below); ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ also Job 38:12, in simile Hos 6:3 (but read ‎כְּשַׁחֲרֵנוּ כֵּן נִמְצָאֵהוּ‎ as infinitive, see following, Gie^{Beitr. 208} We Now GASm Marti), Isa 58:8; Song 6:10; Joel 2:2 (al. blackness, || ‎עָנָן וַעֲרָפֶל‎); ‎׳‎‎בֶּןשֿׁ‎ Isa 14:12 (of star, figurative of royal splendour; — literal as myth RS^{K 300}); ‎׳‎‎אֵין לוֺ שׁ‎ Isa 8:20 is obscure, so also ‎׳‎‎בַּשּׁ‎ Hos 10:15 (We in storm, i.e. ‎בַּשַּׂעַר‎). — Isa 47:11 usually, but improbably, dawn (origin) of calamity: JHMich Hi Ew Rö (Thes) De Di and others charm away (RVm) (Arabic enchant (We^{Heid. 2. 159, 200}), enchantment [= Sabean ‎סחר‎ DHM^{Hofmus. 24. 1}]); but see [ ‎שָׁחַד‎].

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