שַׁחַר
shachar · shakh'-ar
dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7836 (שָׁחַר);
dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to separate and protect › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to separate and protect of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׁחַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the day4 · 17%
- of the morning4 · 17%
- as the morning4 · 17%
- the morning2 · 8%
- early2 · 8%
- for the day1 · 4%
- and when the day1 · 4%
- and caused the dayspring1 · 4%
- shahar1 · 4%
- it is because there is no light1 · 4%
- from whence it riseth1 · 4%
- in a morning1 · 4%
- when the morning1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.