shachar · dawn

What it means

shachar (שַׁחַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dawn”.

Daybreak.

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. The first light of day.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Joshua×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Hosea×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 19:15

  As the dawn came up, the messengers urged Lot, saying, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the iniquity of the city.”

• Genesis 32:24

  And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the dawn came up.

• Genesis 32:26

  Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn has come up.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

• Joshua 6:15

  And it came about on the seventh day that they rose early at the rising of the dawn and went around the city in this same manner seven times; only on that day they went around the city seven times.

• Judges 19:25

  But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them outside; and they knew her and abused her all night until the morning, and they let her go as the dawn came up.

• 1 Samuel 9:26

  And they rose early; and it happened, as the dawn came up, that Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, “Get up, and I will send you off.” So Saul got up, and the two of them, he and Samuel, went out outside.

• Nehemiah 4:21

  So we were doing the work, and half of them were holding the spears, from the rising of the dawn until the coming out of the stars.

• 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 38:12

  Have you, since your days began, commanded the morning, made known to the dawn its place,

• Job 41:18

  Its sneezings make shine light, and its eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.

• Psalms 22:1

  For the director. On The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David. My El, my El, why have you abandoned me? Far from my salvation are the words of my roaring.

• Psalms 57:8

  Awake, my glory; awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Psalms 108:2

  Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn.

• Psalms 139:9

  If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell at the farthest end of the sea,

• Song of Songs 6:10

  Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, pure as the sun, fearsome as troops with banners?

• Isaiah 8:20

  To the instruction and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is those for whom there is no dawn.

• Isaiah 14:12

  How you have fallen from the heavens, Bright Star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

• Isaiah 47:11

  And there will come upon you evil whose dawn you will not know; and there will fall upon you disaster that you will not be able to make expiation for; and there will come upon you suddenly ruin that you will not know.

• Isaiah 58:8

  Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will sprout quickly; and your righteousness will go before you; the glory of YHWH will gather you.

• Hosea 6:3

  And let us know, let us press on to know YHWH; like the dawn, his going out is sure; and he will come to us like the rain, like the late rain that waters the earth.”

• Hosea 10:15

  Thus Bethel will do to you because of the evil of your evil; at dawn the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed.

• Joel 2:2

  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness; like the dawn spread over the mountains, a people great and mighty; its like has never been from of old, and after it there will not be again, to the years of generation after generation.

• Amos 4:13

  For look, the one who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to human beings what his thought is, who makes the dawn darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth: YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, is his name.

• Jonah 4:7

  But Elohim appointed a worm when the dawn came up the next day, and it struck the plant, and it withered.