sha.char marks daybreak, both as a time of rising and as imagery of light's emergence.

The supplied verses use the term for daybreak as a temporal point—when people rise, act, or a night ends—and also in comparisons that portray emerging light, spread, or ascent.

1. Daybreak and its emerging light · dominant

   The noun marks the onset of the day in scenes of action: in Genesis 19:15 the APB renders the clause "When the dawn rose," and in Joshua 6:15 it places the people's early rising at "the rising of dawn." The same term supplies imagery of visible emergence in Isaiah 58:8, where light "will break forth like the dawn," and in Song of Songs 6:10, where someone "rises like the dawn."

   Genesis 19:15Joshua 6:15Jonah 4:7Hosea 6:3Isaiah 58:8Song of Songs 6:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "dawn," including "the dawn rose," "the rising of dawn," and comparisons such as "like the dawn." In several supplied verses its specific contribution is less isolable because the translation gives the whole clause rather than definitions.