Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

son of the morning

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables
son of the -morn-ing
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A traveler.

Etymology

From Hebrew בֶּן־שָׁחַר (Ben-Shahar, “son of dawn”), an allusion to the practice in the Middle East of travelers rising before dawn so they would not have to travel in the heat of day.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: בֶּן-שָׁחַר

Inflected Forms

sons of the morning (plural)

Questions

What does son of the morning mean?
A traveler.
Where does son of the morning come from?
It is traced to Hebrew.

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