נֶשֶׁף
nešep
twilight
Strong's H5399NounHebrewTWOT 1434a

נֶשֶׁף (nešep) is a Hebrew noun meaning twilight. It appears 12 times in 7 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5399).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1434a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1434a)twilight, twilight-breeze; evening twilight; morning twilight; breeze, dusk; dark, dawning of the day, night
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נֶ֫שֶׁף noun, masculine: twilight, twilight-breeze

Strong's H5399 נֶשֶׁף: properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
KJV:dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1434: נָשַׁף nāšap — blow; breeze

See it in Scripture

1 Samuel 30:172 Kings 7:5Job 7:4

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