ne.sheph denotes a dim boundary time of day that frames travel, concealment, darkness, and waiting in the biblical verses supplied.

The noun marks a dim transitional time used to locate actions and conditions: people travel or flee then, an adulterer seeks concealment then, and those without sight stumble as in such darkness. The supplied verses also place it beside evening, night, light, and dawn, without requiring separate lexical senses.

1. Dim transitional time of day · dominant

   The masculine singular noun is used as a temporal setting for action and darkness. In 2 Kings 7:5 the APB renders the group as rising "at twilight" to go to Aram’s camp; in 2 Kings 7:7 it renders their flight at the same time, while Job 24:15 places the adulterer’s watch for concealment there. Isaiah 59:10 compares stumbling at noon with stumbling "as in twilight," and Proverbs 7:9 places the time alongside evening, night, and darkness.

   2 Kings 7:52 Kings 7:7Job 24:15Isaiah 59:10Proverbs 7:9Jeremiah 13:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the temporal setting with "twilight," including travel, flight, concealment, and stumbling. In Job 7:4 it instead renders the surrounding setting as "the night," so the translation does not isolate the noun’s contribution word by word.