Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5399
נֶשֶׁף
neshephneh'-shef
twilight
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5399is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 10spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5399
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
The King James renders it: dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nesheph is rendered "twilight". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 30:17And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
- The Greek text spells it ten different ways.
The first use
And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
1 Samuel 30:17מֵהַנֶּ֥שֶׁף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- twilight3
- at the twilight2
- in the twilight2
- at twilight1
- from the twilight1
- like the twilight1
- twilight its1
- twilight of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
10 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַנֶּ֔שֶׁף2
- נֶ֣שֶׁף2
- בַ֭נֶּשֶׁף1
- בַנֶּשֶׁף֒1
- בְּנֶֽשֶׁף־1
- כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁף1
- מֵהַנֶּ֥שֶׁף1
- נָ֑שֶׁף1
- נָֽשֶׁף׃1
- נִ֫שְׁפּ֥וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular5HRd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HR/Td/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.
- מֵהַנֶּ֥שֶׁףmehaneshefpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: from the twilight
2 Kings
two uses
So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.
- בַנֶּ֔שֶׁףvaneshefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: at the twilight
Thus the Arameans had arisen and fled at twilight, abandoning their tents and horses and donkeys. The camp was intact, and they had run for their lives.
- בַנֶּשֶׁף֒vaneshefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: at the twilight
Job
three uses
May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- נִ֫שְׁפּ֥וֹnishponoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: twilight its
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
- נָֽשֶׁף׃nashefnoun · masculine singulartagged: twilight
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
- נֶ֣שֶׁףneshefnoun · masculine singulartagged: twilight
Psalms
one use
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- בַ֭נֶּשֶׁףvaneshefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the twilight
Proverbs
one use
at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
- בְּנֶֽשֶׁף־beneshef-preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: at twilight
Isaiah
three uses
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- בַנֶּ֔שֶׁףvaneshefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the twilight
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- נֶ֣שֶׁףneshefnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: twilight of
Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- כַּנֶּ֔שֶׁףkaneshefpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the twilight
Jeremiah
one use
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- נָ֑שֶׁףnashefnoun · masculine singulartagged: twilight
The letters
Gematria 430· 1,150 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.