Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
dawn
Usage: 1) dawn 1a) dawn 1b) at dawn (as adverb)
Shachar means “early” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7837 שַׁחַר (shachar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shachar (shakh'-ar) n-m. 1. dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial) [from H7836] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include morning, day, dawning, light, and early. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shachar (shakh'-ar) n-m. 1. dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial) [from H7836] KJV: day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth. Root(s): H7836
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dawn
Usage: 1) dawn 1a) dawn 1b) at dawn (as adverb)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shachar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7837.
And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7837, grouped by book.
Shachar (Strong's H7837) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "early". shachar (shakh'-ar) n-m. 1. dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial) [from H7836]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H7837 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7837 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as morning, day, dawning, light, early, and days. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.