Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7837
שַׁחַר
shacharshakh'-ar
dawn
23 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 H7837is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7837
dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)
The King James renders it: day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.
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
shachar is rendered "dawn". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:15At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
Genesis 19:15הַשַּׁ֣חַר
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
- the dawn9
- dawn8
- like dawn2
- at the dawn1
- like the dawn1
- of dawn1
- to charm away it1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- שָׁ֑חַר3
- שָֽׁחַר׃3
- הַשַּׁ֣חַר2
- הַשַּׁ֔חַר2
- הַשָּֽׁחַר׃2
- כְּשַׁ֖חַר2
- שָּֽׁחַר׃2
- בַּשַּׁ֕חַר1
- הַשַּׁ֙חַר֙1
- הַשַּׁ֖חַר1
- הַשָּׁ֑חַר1
- כַּשַּׁ֙חַר֙1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9HTd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpcc/Sp3fs
Genesis
three uses
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- הַשַּׁ֣חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
- הַשָּֽׁחַר׃hashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- הַשָּׁ֑חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
Joshua
one use
Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
- הַשַּׁ֔חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
Judges
one use
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
- הַשָּֽׁחַר׃hashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
1 Samuel
one use
They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
- הַשַּׁ֙חַר֙hashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
Nehemiah
one use
So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.
- הַשַּׁ֔חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
Job
three uses
May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- שָֽׁחַר׃shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
- הַשַּׁ֣חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
- שָֽׁחַר׃shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
Psalms
three uses
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
- שָּֽׁחַר׃shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
- שָּֽׁחַר׃shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
- שָׁ֑חַרshacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
Song of Solomon
one use
Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
- שָׁ֑חַרshacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
Isaiah
four uses
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- שָֽׁחַר׃shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
- שָׁ֑חַרshacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: dawn
But disaster will come upon you; you will not know how to charm it away. A calamity will befall you that you will be unable to ward off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
- שַׁחְרָ֔הּshachrahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: to charm away it
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- כַּשַּׁ֙חַר֙kashacharpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the dawn
Hosea
two uses
So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- כְּשַׁ֖חַרkeshacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like dawn
Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
- בַּשַּׁ֕חַרbashacharpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: at the dawn
Joel
one use
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- כְּשַׁ֖חַרkeshacharpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like dawn
Amos
one use
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
- שַׁ֙חַר֙shacharnoun · masculine singulartagged: of dawn
Jonah
one use
When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
- הַשַּׁ֖חַרhashacharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the dawn
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.