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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61639" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_61639" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> 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. </p> 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." <p> NOON, a. Meridional. </p> <p> How of the noon bell. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56730" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56730" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53055" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53055" /> == | ||
<p> a rendering in Genesis 43:16, and elsewhere, of צָהַרִיַם, '' | <p> 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]]). </p> | ||
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