33 occurrences

'Dawn' in the Bible

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

They got up early, and just before dawn, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, and I’ll send you on your way!” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.

Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father’s tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.

May its morning stars grow dark.May it wait for daylight but have none;may it not see the breaking of dawn.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;they perish forever while no one notices.

When I lie down I think:When will I get up?But the evening drags on endlessly,and I toss and turn until dawn.

The murderer rises at dawnto kill the poor and needy,and by night he becomes a thief.

Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,

His snorting flashes with light,while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

Your people will volunteeron Your day of battle.In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

Y Who is this who shines like the dawn—as beautiful as the moon,bright as the sun,awe-inspiring as an army with banners?

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

At the first light of dawn the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den.

Let us strive to know the Lord.His appearance is as sure as the dawn.He will come to us like the rain,like the spring showers that water the land.

So it will be done to you, Bethel,because of your extreme evil.At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.

a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and dense overcast,like the dawn spreading over the mountains;a great and strong people appears,such as never existed in ages pastand never will againin all the generations to come.

He is here:the One who forms the mountains,creates the wind,and reveals His thoughts to man,the One who makes the dawn out of darknessand strides on the heights of the earth.Yahweh, the God of Hosts, is His name.

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion,who turns darkness into dawnand darkens day into night,who summons the waters of the seaand pours them out over the face of the earth—Yahweh is His name.

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, and it withered.

The righteous Lord is in her;He does no wrong.He applies His justice morning by morning;He does not fail at dawn,yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.

If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

After going upstairs, breaking the bread, and eating, Paul conversed a considerable time until dawn. Then he left.

After arranging a day with him, many came to him at his lodging. From dawn to dusk he expounded and witnessed about the kingdom of God. He tried to persuade them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets.

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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

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