neshef · twilight

What it means

neshef (נֶשֶׁף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “twilight”.

The half-light of dawn or of evening, when the breeze blows.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. When it grows dark at evening.
2. The dim light before sunrise.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• twilight ×11
• dawn ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1

• 1 Samuel 30:17

  David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on the camels and fled.

• 2 Kings 7:5

  They got up at twilight to go to the camp of Aram; and they came to the edge of the camp of Aram, and there was no one there.

• 2 Kings 7:7

  They got up and fled at twilight and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, the camp just as it was, and they fled for their lives.

• Job 3:9

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

• Job 7:4

  When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the evening stretches on, and I am sated with tossing until twilight.

• Job 24:15

  And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will catch sight of me,’ and he puts a covering on his face.

• Psalms 119:147

  I went ahead of the dawn and cried for help; your word I have awaited.

• Proverbs 7:9

  in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and deep darkness.

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after intoxicating drink, who linger into the twilight while wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 21:4

  My heart goes astray; horror has overwhelmed me; the twilight of my desire he has made for me into trembling.

• Isaiah 59:10

  We grope like the blind for the wall, and like those without eyes we grope; we stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the robust we are like the dead.

• Jeremiah 13:16

  Give to YHWH your Elohim glory before he brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the mountains of twilight, and you wait for light, and he turns it into the shadow of death, makes it into dense cloud.