evening
e.rev marks the evening period, including ordinary events, daily boundaries, and scheduled offerings.
The attested noun most often marks evening as a time of day, whether paired with morning, setting a limit for an action, or locating an event. It also occurs in recurring worship and sacrifice schedules, in the repeated evening-and-morning formula for a day, and in a dual form used in the expression “between the evenings.”
Senses in use
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Evening as the time of an event or limit · dominant
The singular noun locates arrivals, actions, and endpoints within the day: in Genesis 19:1 the APB renders the messengers’ arrival “in the evening,” while in 1 Kings 22:35 the king remains in battle “until evening.” In Exodus 18:13 it marks the end of the period during which the people stand before Moses, “from morning until evening.”
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Evening in recurring offerings and worship · common
The singular noun identifies the evening counterpart to morning in regular offerings and praise. In 1 Chronicles 16:40 the APB renders offerings “morning and evening,” and in Ezra 9:5 it locates Ezra’s response “at the evening offering.”
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Evening paired with morning in a day pattern · occasional
In Genesis 1:5 the singular noun occurs in the repeated sequence rendered “there was evening and there was morning,” followed by the first day; the same pattern appears for later days. Daniel 8:14 likewise joins evenings and mornings in a numbered period.
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The interval called “between the evenings” · rare
The dual form occurs in a fixed timing expression for slaughtering or offering. In Exodus 12:6 the APB renders the instruction to slaughter the animal “between the evenings,” and Exodus 29:39 applies the same timing to the second lamb.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun as “evening,” especially in contrasts with “morning” and in time phrases such as “until evening.” For the dual form in Exodus 12:6 and Exodus 29:39, it renders the expression “between the evenings”.