שַׁחַרshachar

dawn (Genesis 19:15; 1 Samuel 9:26; Judges 19:25; Isaiah 47:11; Genesis 32:25)

Pronunciation: shakh'-ar · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7837

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 24 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 19:15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”
  • Genesis 32:24 This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break.
  • Genesis 32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking!” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
  • Joshua 6:15 On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times.
  • Judges 19:25 But they wouldn’t listen to him. So the Levite took hold of his concubine and pushed her out the door. The men of the town abused her all night, taking turns raping her until morning. Finally, at dawn they let her go.
  • 1 Samuel 9:26 At daybreak the next morning, Samuel called to Saul, “Get up! It’s time you were on your way.” So Saul got ready, and he and Samuel left the house together.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).