1 Samuel 30:17
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
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Twilight
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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.
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נֶשֶׁף
nesheph · neh'-shef
6 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
Strong's KJV usage: dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 30:17Strong's last: Proverbs 7:9
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ʻălâṭâh · al-aw-taw'
3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
dusk
Strong's KJV usage: dark, twilight.
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Strong's first: Ezekiel 12:6Strong's last: Ezekiel 12:12
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And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
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And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
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Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
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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:
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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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.
H5939
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.
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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.
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twilight
TWI'LIGHT, noun
1. The faint light which is reflected upon the earth after sunset and before sunrise; crepuscular light. In latitudes remote from the equator, the twilight is of much longer duration than at and near the equator.
2. Dubious or uncertain view; as the twilight or probability.
TWI'LIGHT, adjective Obscure; imperfectly illuminated; shaded.
O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves.
1. Seen or done by twilight
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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