Evening

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EVENING.—See Time.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Evening [DAY]
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Ecc_11:6 (b) The evening time in the life is the time when the shadows fall, the day's work is ended, sorrows and weakness have come, and hope has faded. We should be as busy serving GOD in the later years as we are in the early years of life. Sometimes the dark times precede the bright times. We read that the evening and the morning were the first day. The darkness preceded the light. (gee also Exo_16:12; Num_9:21). We read in Eze_24:18 "in the evening, my wife died, and in the morning I did as I was commanded." We should not permit sorrow and difficulty to hinder our service. It may be taken also as a picture of the fact that our time on earth is the evening time, followed by the morning in glory, a morning without clouds.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Evening
(עֶרֶב, e'reb, e dusk; ἑσπέρα, ὀψία), the period following sunset, with which the Jewish day (νυχθήμερον) began (Gen_1:5; Mar_13:35). SEE DAY. Some writers have argued that the first creative day (Gen_1:5) is reckoned from the morning, when light first appeared (Gen_1:3), as if "evening" then designated not a portion of time, but a termination of the first creative period or age; but this does violence to the whole order of the narrative, in which a period of night invariably precedes one of daylight, precisely in accordance with the conventional Hebrew usage of a νυχθήμερον or "evening-and-morning," and as the terms are expressly defined in the former clause of Gen_1:5. If "evening" in the phrase in question be distinguishable from the "night" as a terminus, it is certainly a terminus a quo, as dating the latter from the aboriginal "darkness," Gen_1:2, and not a terminus ad quem of the ensuing day. SEE NIGHT.
The Hebrews appear to have reckoned two evenings in each day; as in the phrase בֵּין עִרְבִּיַם, between the two evenings (Exo_16:12; Exo_30:8), by which they designated that part of the day in which the paschal lamb was to be killed (Exo_12:6; Lev_23:5; Num_9:3; Num_9:5; in the Hebrews and margin); and, at the same time, the evening sacrifice was offered, the lamps lighted, and the incense burned (Exo_29:39; Exo_29:41; Num_28:4). But the ancients themselves disagreed concerning this usage; for the Samaritans and Caraites (comp. Reland, De Samarit. § 22, in his Diss. Miscell volume 2; Trigland, De Karaeis, chap. iv) understood the time to be that between sunset and twilight, and so Aben Esra at Exo_12:6, who writes that it was about the third hour (9 o'clock P.M.); the Pharisees, on the other hand, as early as the time of Josephus (War, 6:9, 3), and the Rabbins (Pesach, 5:3), thought that "the first evening" was that period of the afternoon when the sun is verging towards setting (Gr. δείλη πρωϊvα), "the second evening" the precise moment of sunset itself (δείλη ὀψία), according to which opinion the paschal lamb would bed slaughtered from the ninth to the eleventh hour (3 to 5 o'clock P.M.). The former of these opinions seems preferable on account of the expression in Deu_16:6, "when the sun goeth down," בְּבוַֹא הִשֶּׁמֶשׁ; and also on account of the similar phraseology among the Arabs (Borhaneddin, Enchiridion Studiosi, 8:36, ed. Caspin, Lips. 1838; Kamus, page 1917; on the contrary, see Pococke, Ad Carmen Tograi, page 71; Talmud Hieros. Berach. chapter 1; Babyl. Sabb. 2:346, fol.; Bochart, Hieroz. 1:634, Lips.). SEE PASSOVER.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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