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EVENING

The occurrence of evening (Heb. ʿereḇ) prior to morning indicates that the beginning of the day began with the evening. The term first occurs in Gen. 1 in reference to the evening and morning of the six creation days. That the day began in the evening is corroborated by the repeated occurrence of this time designation in Lev. 15 as the time when a ceremonially unclean person became clean again. In the NT evening (Gk. opsía, opsé, “late, late in the day”; hespéra) is also contrasted with morning (Matt. 16:2; Mark 13:35; Acts 28:23).

The Hebrew term is often associated with darkness or shadows (Prov. 7:9; Jer. 6:4; cf. Ezek. 12:4, 7; similarly opsía in Mark 1:32). Twilight is indicated by the phrase bên hāʿarbāyim, “between the two evenings” (e.g., Exod. 12:6; 30:8; Num. 9:3, 5, 11; 28:4).

Mark F. Rooker






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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