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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(decline of
day
). Two evenings recognized, one before, the other after, sunset (
Gen. 24:63
63
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming. (Genesis 24:63)
;
Ex. 12:6
6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Exodus 12:6)
;
Num. 9:3; 28:4
3
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. (Numbers 9:3)
4
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; (Numbers 28:4)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The period from sunset till
night
. This was naturally the closing of the
day
, for
God
called the
light
“day” (compare
John 11:9
9
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. (John 11:9)
). “The evening was, and the morning was, one day”; that is, there was not day continuously, but through the alternation of night and morning day succeeded day.
Gen. 1:5
5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)
. The common way of reckoning the day among the Jews was from evening until the next evening. A difficulty has arisen as to the phrase “
between the two evenings
.” The paschal
lamb
was to be killed between the two evenings, and some have thought that this allowed the evening of the 15th
Abib
. This however cannot be the meaning because none of it was to be left till the morning; and because the same phrase is used respecting the
daily
sacrifice
, and also as to lighting the lamps (
Ex. 12:6
6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Exodus 12:6)
, margin;
Ex. 29:39; 30:8
39
The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: (Exodus 29:39)
8
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. (Exodus 30:8)
). The Jewish writers are not agreed in their definition of the expression: some suppose it lies between the
beginning
and ending of sunset; others, from sunset to full
darkness
. Josephus says that the
time
of killing
the passover
was from the ninth
hour
till the eleventh, which would be about from
three
o’clock to five; but this would seem to make the “evening” come at the end of the Jewish day, and not at the beginning.
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Number:
3798
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Greek:
ὄψιος
Transliteration:
opsios
Phonic:
op’-see-os
Meaning:
from
3796
; late; feminine (as noun) afternoon (early eve) or nightfall (later eve)
KJV Usage:
even(-ing, (-tide))
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