Dusk
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

2. (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.

3. (n.) A darkish color.

4. (v. t.) To make dusk.

5. (v. i.) To grow dusk.

Strong's Hebrew
5399. nesheph -- twilight
... From nashaph; properly, a breeze, ie (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze
prevails) -- dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight. ...
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6153. ereb -- evening
... day, evening, tide, night. From arab; dusk -- + day, even(-ing, tide), night. see
HEBREW arab. 6152b, 6153. ereb. 6154 . Strong's Numbers.
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652. ophel -- darkness, gloom
... darkness, obscurity, privily. From the same as 'aphel; dusk -- darkness, obscurity,
privily. see HEBREW 'aphel. 651, 652. ophel. 653 . Strong's Numbers.
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5939. alatah -- thick darkness
... dark, twilight. Feminine from an unused root meaning to cover; dusk -- dark,
twilight. 5938, 5939. alatah. 5940 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Heir to the Throne
... The king was at prayers in the temple of his father, close to the palace, and the
dusk of twilight was settling on the valley of the Nile, before Loi was ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter v the heir to.htm

(And Last): Homeward Bound
... There was Morrison's"our good Scotch host of seven weeks since; and the glasses
were turned on it, to see, if possible, through the dusk, the almond-tree and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xvii and last homeward.htm

Night
... He had made the tomb a home for her, he had knelt on its rock pavement and kissed
her hands in its dusk and had passed its threshold, like a shadow, to return ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxiv night.htm

The Debt of Israel
... The dusk settled down over the valley. ... Rachel, startled out of her dream, hesitated,
her face coloring hotly, though unseen, beneath the kindly dusk of night. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter x the debt of.htm

Departure from Ireland. Death and Burial at Clairvaux.
... 73. Towards the dusk of night, when now somehow the celebration of the day had been
finished by us, Malachy had drawn near, not to dusk but to dawn. ...
/.../chapter viii departure from ireland.htm

Expatriation
... Jambres beheld him recede into the dusk and wavered. "Stay!" he called. Kenkenes
stopped. "Wilt thou swear fidelity by the holy Name?". ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xlii expatriation.htm

The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing
... Men have now by nature no peace within their hearts, for God is crowned there no
longer, but there in the moral dusk stubborn and aggressive usurpers fight ...
/.../tozer/the pursuit of god/ii the blessedness of possessing.htm

Victory Found
... One day (I can never forget it), as I sat inside the house by a paper window at
dusk, two Chinese Christian women sat down on the other side. ...
/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/x victory found.htm

In the Sunless Crypt
... took one of the older women and timidly climbing the steps from which the rubbish
had been pushed away by the climbing hundreds, went through the dusk of the ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xviii in the sunless.htm

As the Foam Upon Water
... Laodice, sensing something climacteric in his atmosphere, kept aloof from him, and
regarded him from the dusk of her corner with wonder and a pity that she ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the city of delight/chapter xx as the foam.htm

Thesaurus
Dusk (21 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight;
as, the dusk of the evening. 3. (n.) A darkish color. 4. (vt) To make dusk. ...
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Dusky (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous;
dusk; as, a dusky valley. 2. (a.) Tending to blackness ...
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Durst (9 Occurrences)

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Nighttime (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to
daytime. Multi-Version Concordance Nighttime (1 Occurrence). ...
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Night (3322 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the
time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there ...
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Bat (2 Occurrences)
... The insect bats, as in other countries, flit about at dusk and through the night
catching mosquitoes and larger insects, and so are distinctly beneficial. ...
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Extremity (46 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 7:5 And they rose up in the dusk to go to the camp of the Syrians; and they
came to the extremity of the camp of the Syrians; and behold, there was no ...
/e/extremity.htm - 22k

Accordance (118 Occurrences)
... Numbers 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, ye shall keep it in its
appointed season; according to all the statutes of it, and according to all ...
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Israelites (468 Occurrences)
... Speak unto them, saying: At dusk ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall
be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.' (See NIV ...
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Resources
Does Genesis chapter 1 mean literal 24-hour days? | GotQuestions.org

Who was Rahab in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Dusk: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Concordance
Dusk (21 Occurrences)

Matthew 28:1
Now late on sabbath, as it was the dusk of the next day after sabbath, came Mary of Magdala and the other Mary to look at the sepulchre.
(DBY)

Exodus 12:6
and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.
(See JPS)

Exodus 16:12
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God.
(See JPS)

Exodus 29:39
The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
(See JPS)

Exodus 29:41
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.
(See JPS)

Exodus 30:8
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.
(See JPS)

Leviticus 23:5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah's passover.
(See JPS)

Numbers 9:3
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season: according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it.
(See JPS)

Numbers 9:5
And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
(See JPS)

Numbers 9:11
In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
(See JPS)

Numbers 28:4
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even;
(See JPS)

Numbers 28:8
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
(See JPS)

1 Samuel 30:17
David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 7:5
And they rose up in the dusk to go to the camp of the Syrians; and they came to the extremity of the camp of the Syrians; and behold, there was no man there.
(DBY NIV)

2 Kings 7:7
And they rose up and fled in the dusk, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
(DBY NIV)

Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
(See NIV)

Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 12:6
In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, so that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 12:7
I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 12:12
The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
(See NIV)

Habakkuk 1:8
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
(See NIV)

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Dusk

Related Terms

Dusky (1 Occurrence)

Durst (9 Occurrences)

Nighttime (1 Occurrence)

Night (3322 Occurrences)

Bat (2 Occurrences)

Extremity (46 Occurrences)

Accordance (118 Occurrences)

Israelites (468 Occurrences)

Durst
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