What Does Dawn Mean in Matt 28:1?

[zotah]

I have been looking up the word "Dawn" in the Dictionary.com site and have been investigating this word for over a week now. My question is Can the word Dawn besides meaning daybreak or sunrise. Can it also mean beginning of evening. Like the Dawn of the evening approaches. Dawn everywhere I look up means beginning. The reason I asked is because. I'm trying to prove to a friend that Dawn can mean more than just Sunrise but in fact it can mean sunset as well. I get this Idea from 1600 century English from a verse in the

King James Bible Matt. Chapter 28 Verse 1. In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn (toward the first day of the week), came Mary Magdaline and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

The context of the verse seems that dawn is referring to the beginning of the night.

Because part one of the verse (end of the Sabbath) would mean Saturday afternoon approaching Evening. The 3rd part of the verse says. (Toward the first day of the week) Also referring to coming into the Evening of 6PM Saturday night starting the new week of Sunday or first day.

 

[Tina]

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It's Sunday morning ... as Mark 16 infers.


Mark 16:1-2
Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him. Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

 

[logical bob]

An interlinear Bible is always handy. Here's a good one:

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm

In Matthew 28:1 it shows that the word used literally means "on-lighting," so I think that has to mean sunrise.