'Day-break' in the Bible

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Then He said to Jacob, "Let Me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob said, "I will not let You go unless You bless me."

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the Lord overthrew them in the sea.

On the seventh day they rose early at daybreak and marched around the city as usual, only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go.

The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.

They got up early in the morning, and about daybreak Samuel called to Saul on the roof, "Get up and I'll send you off." Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside.

They retrieved Asahel's body and buried him in his father's tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night until daybreak and arrived back in Hebron.

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.

So we continued the work, while half of the men were holding spears from daybreak until the stars came out.

While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate, he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively to the book of the law.

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice; at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.

God [is] in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her {at daybreak}.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

Wherefore glorify the Lord in the east [whether in the region of daybreak's lights and fires, or in the west]; [glorify] the name of the Lord, the God of Israel in the isles and coasts of the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went {in haste} to {the lion pit}.

So shall Bethel do unto you because of the wickedness of your wickedness: at day-break shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

So God appointed a worm {at daybreak} the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered.

But towards daybreak He went to them, walking over the waves.

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there.

And because He saw that they were struggling at the oars, for the wind was against them, a while before daybreak He started toward them walking on the sea, and He meant to go right up beside them.

Therefore watch, for you cannot be sure when the Master of the house is coming-- whether in the evening, at midnight, at daybreak, or in the morning--

Through the tender compassion of our God, Through which the daybreak from on high will come to us,

At daybreak he left and went to a deserted place, while the crowds kept looking for him. When they came to him, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

At daybreak the National Council met--both the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law--and took Jesus before their High Council.

Although also certain women of our company made us astonished, who before daybreak were at the sepulchre;

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

When daybreak came, Jesus stood on the shore. However, the disciples did not know it was Jesus.

In obedience to this, they entered the temple complex at daybreak and began to teach. When the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin-the full Senate of the sons of Israel-and sent [orders] to the jail to have them brought.

At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, "Release those men."

And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.

Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and wished for daybreak.

And continually, up till daybreak, Paul kept urging all on board to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said, "that you have been anxiously waiting for the storm to cease, and have fasted, eating little or nothing.