Bible Dictionary: Twilight

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18 below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

2. (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.

3. (a.) Seen or done by twilight.

4. (a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

TWILIGHT

twi'-lit (nesheph): The twilight of Palestine is of short duration, owing to the low latitude, there being scarcely more than an hour between sunset and complete darkness. It is a distinct boundary between daytime and the darkness. The people of Palestine still give the time of an event as so many hours before or after sunrise or sunset: "David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day" (1 Samuel 30:17), and "They rose up in the twilight to go" (2 Kings 7:5). The word is evidenly used in the sense of darkness in "the stars of twilight" (Job 3:9) and "The adulterer waiteth for the twilight" (Job 24:15). the King James Version has "twilight" in Ezekiel 12:6;, but the Revised Version (British and American) has "dark."

Alfred H. Joy

Strong's Hebrew

5399. nesheph -- twilight
... 5398, 5399. nesheph. 5400 . twilight. Transliteration: nesheph Phonetic
Spelling: (neh'-shef) Short Definition: twilight. Word Origin ...
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5939. alatah -- thick darkness
... dark, twilight. Feminine from an unused root meaning to cover; dusk -- dark,
twilight. 5938, 5939. alatah. 5940 . Strong's Numbers.
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6153. ereb -- evening
... Origin from an unused word Definition evening NASB Word Usage evening (114), evening*
(1), evenings (2), every evening (1), night (2), sunset (1), twilight (11 ...
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6751. tsalal -- to be or grow dark
... A primitive root (identical with tsalal through the idea of hovering over (compare
tselem)); to shade, as twilight or an opaque object -- begin to be dark ...
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Library

Twilight
... HYMNS TWILIGHT. "Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far
spent.""Luke 24:29. JA Freylinghausen, 1739. tr., Emma Frances Bevan, 1899. ...
/.../bevan/hymns of ter steegen and others second series/twilight.htm

Saw You Never, in the Twilight
... CAROLS Carols 553. Saw you never, in the twilight. 8.7.8.7.D. ... Cecil Frances Alexander,
1853. Saw you never, in the twilight,. When the sun had left the skies,. ...
/.../carols 553 saw you never.htm

A Long Twilight. AD 900-1100.
... CHAPTER II. A LONG TWILIGHT. AD 900-1100. Barbarian Incursions The two centuries
we have now reached are a very barren period for literature. ...
/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/chapter ii a long twilight.htm

'Impossible, --Only I Saw It'
... us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and
if they kill us, we shall but die.5. And they rose up in the twilight, to go ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/impossibleonly i saw it.htm

"Consider the Lilies. "
... others. The day has gone, the twilight fades, There's stillness everywhere;
I seek some place of solitude, And humbly bow in prayer. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/consider the lilies.htm

It is Admitted, one May Hope, that Common Things are Never ...
... song of my youth which began "In the gloaming, O, my darling," was vulgar enough
as a song; but the connection between human passion and the twilight is none ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 13 it is admitted.htm

The Broken Tryst.
... That evening early, in the twilight, God came walking in the garden to have the
usual talk with His friend. ... The twilight of that day had a pathetic sight. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks about jesus/the broken tryst.htm

Excursus on the Choir Offices of the Early Church.
... Of the twilight service we have a most exquisite remains in the hymn to be sung
at the lighting of the lamps. ... And seeing the evening. Twilight, we bless thee,. ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/excursus on the choir offices.htm

Evening Hymn with Nature.
... 2 The morn, when stepping down the hills" The noon, which all creation fills With
glory; evening's placid fall, The twilight and the raven pall Of midnight ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/963 evening hymn with.htm

Perpetual Praise.
... 4 As twilight wears a darker hue, And gathering night creation dims, The twilight
and the midnight, too, Shall have their harmonies and hymns. ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/423 perpetual praise.htm

Thesaurus

Twilight (25 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
3. (a.) Seen or done by twilight. ... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TWILIGHT. ...
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Dawning (11 Occurrences)
... There are several words in the Bible that indicate this. nesheph, "twilight"
of the morning (Job 7:4 Psalm 119:147). The same word ...
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Dusk (21 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight;
as, the dusk of the evening. 3. (n.) A darkish color. 4. (vt) To make dusk. ...
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Dawn (70 Occurrences)
... There are several words in the Bible that indicate this. nesheph, "twilight"
of the morning (Job 7:4 Psalm 119:147). The same word ...
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Night (3322 Occurrences)
... morning," indicate an exact space of time (compare Genesis 8:11 Exodus 10:13
Deuteronomy 16:6). The term nesheph, is used for both evening twilight and morning ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... imperfectly; to glimmer. 6. (vi) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal,
gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. 7. (vt) To ...
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Twigs (8 Occurrences)

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Twin (9 Occurrences)

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Noonday (13 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have
no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty ...
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Outskirts (38 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Arameans;
and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Arameans ...
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Bible Concordance

Twilight (25 Occurrences)

Luke 23:54 And it was preparation day, and the sabbath twilight was coming on.
(DBY)

Exodus 12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 16:12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying,'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 29:39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening:
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 29:41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning, and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 30:8 When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Yahweh throughout your generations.
(See NAS NIV)

Leviticus 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.
(See NAS NIV)

Numbers 9:3 On the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you shall keep it in its appointed season-according to all its statutes, and according to all its ordinances, you shall keep it."
(See NAS NIV)

Numbers 9:5 They kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
(See NAS NIV)

Numbers 9:11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
(See NAS NIV)

Numbers 28:4 You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening;
(See NAS NIV)

Numbers 28:8 The other lamb you shall offer at evening: as the meal offering of the morning, and as the drink offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
(See NAS NIV)

1 Samuel 30:17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Kings 7:5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Kings 7:7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Job 3:9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Proverbs 7:9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 5:11 Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, till wine inflameth them!
(DBY YLT)

Isaiah 21:4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
(WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
(See JPS DBY RSV)

Ezekiel 12:6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
(KJV WBS)

Ezekiel 12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.
(KJV WBS)

Ezekiel 12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
(KJV WBS)

Subtopics

Twilight

Related Terms

Dawning (11 Occurrences)

Dusk (21 Occurrences)

Dawn (70 Occurrences)

Night (3322 Occurrences)

Gloom (29 Occurrences)

Twigs (8 Occurrences)

Twin (9 Occurrences)

Noonday (13 Occurrences)

Outskirts (38 Occurrences)