STRONGS NUMBER H7837


Word Summary
shachar: dawn
Original Word: שַׁחַר
Transliteration: shachar
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-ar)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dawn
Meaning: dawn
Strong's Concordance
dayspring, early, light, morning, whence rises

From shachar; dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial) -- day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.

see HEBREW shachar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7837. shachar

שַׁ֫חַרnoun masculineGenesis 19:15 dawn; — absolute ׳שׁ1 Samuel 9:26 +, שָׁ֑חַרJudges 19:25 +; suffix שַׁחְרָךְIsaiah 47:11 (but read probably שַׁחֲדָהּ‎); — dawn, with עָלָהrise Genesis 19:15; 32:25, 27; Joshua 6:15 (all J), Judges 19:25; 1 Samuel 9:26; Nehemiah 4:15; Jonah 4:7; opposed to עֵיפָהAmos 4:13; as adverb at dawn Psalm 57:9 = 108:3; ׳עַפְעַמֵּישֿׁJob 3:9; 41:10; ׳כַּנְפֵישֿׁPsalm 139:9; 110:3 read probably שׁ ׳רֶחֶם‎ (see מִשְׁחָר‎ below); ׳שׁ‎ also Job 38:12, in simile Hosea 6:3 (but read נִמְצָאֵהוּ כֵּן כְּשַׁחֲרֵנוּ‎ as infinitive, see following, GieBeitr. 208 We Now GASm Marti), Isaiah 58:8; Song of Solomon 6:10; Joel 2:2 (al. blackness, "" וַעֲרָפֶל עָנָן‎); ׳בֶּןשֿׁIsaiah 14:12 (of star, figurative of royal splendour; — literal as myth RSK 300); שׁ לוֺ ׳אֵין8:20 is obscure, so also ׳בַּשּׁHosea 10:15 (We in storm, i.e. בַּשַּׂעַר‎). — Isaiah 47:11 usually, but improbably, dawn (origin) of calamity: JHMich Hi Ew Rö (Thes) De Di and others charm away (RVm) (Arabic enchant (WeHeid. 2. 159, 200), enchantment [= Sabean סחר‎ DHMHofmus. 24. 1]); but see [ שָׁחַד‎].