Definition

dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)

Etymology

from H7836 (שָׁחַר);

Word family

• שָׁחַר shâchar

How the KJV renders it

• day(-spring)
• early
• light
• morning
• whence riseth

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.