tso.har denotes the central, bright part of the day, used for events, daylight contrasts, and figurative brightness.

The term consistently marks the central daylight period: it times actions and events, contrasts full daylight with darkness or evening, and supplies imagery for conspicuous brightness, gloom, or judgment occurring in daylight.

1. The central daylight period · dominant

   In 1 Kings 18:26 the APB renders the prophets' calling as continuing from morning until “the midday,” and 1 Kings 18:29 marks what happens after that point. The same temporal setting marks a meal in Genesis 43:16, military movement in Jeremiah 6:4, a child sitting with his mother in 2 Kings 4:20, and the flock's resting time in Song of Songs 1:7. In figurative and judgment contexts, the APB describes darkness or stumbling at this brightest part of the day in Amos 8:9 and Isaiah 59:10.

   1 Kings 18:261 Kings 18:29Genesis 43:16Jeremiah 6:4Amos 8:9Isaiah 59:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “midday,” “noon,” “noonday,” and “broad daylight” in these verses. Those renderings confirm the clauses' daylight setting rather than establish separate meanings.