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title: נֶשֶׁף — twilight · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶשֶׁף (5399), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: twilight. BDB 1906: n.m. twilight. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶשֶׁף

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«נֶשֶׁף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **twilight** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 5399 · **BDB:** נֶ֫שֶׁף

### Glosses

twilight (9); its.twilight (1); of.twilight (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֶשֶׁף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5399/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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