Noon
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
lit., "middle-day" (mesos, "middle," and hemera, "a day"), signifies (a) "noon," Acts 22:6; (b) "the south," Acts 8:26 .
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To take rest and refreshment at noon.
(2): ( a.) Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
(3): ( a.) No. See the Note under No.
(4): ( n.) The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
(5): ( n.) Hence, the highest point; culmination.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
2 Samuel 4:5 1 Kings 20:16 2 Kings 4:20 Psalm 91:6 Jeremiah 6:4 Jeremiah 15:8 Jeremiah 20:16 Zephaniah 2:4 Job 11:17 Psalm 37:6 Isaiah 58:10
King James Dictionary [4]
NOON, n. said to be from naw, that is up or ultimate, that limits, also nine. I has been supposed that the ninth hour, among the Romans, was the time of eating the chief meal this hour was three o'clock, P.M. In Danish, none is an afternooning, a collation.
1. The middle of the day the time when the sun is in the meridian twelve o'clock. 2. Dryden used the word for midnight. "At the noon of night."
NOON, a. Meridional.
How of the noon bell.
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [5]
See Time.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [6]
a rendering in Genesis 43:16, and elsewhere, of צָהַרִיַם , Tsohora ' Yim, Doublelight, i.e. either the dividing point between the growing and waning lights of morning and evening (Furst, s.v.), or the moment when light is double, and so brightest (Gesenius). By a natural metaphor, the word is sometimes employed to designate prosperity and happiness ( Amos 8:9; Zephaniah 2:4). (See Day).
