Lexicon :: Strong's H6672 - ṣōhar

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and kill an animal and make [a meal] ready; for the men will dine with me at noon.”

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, left and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest.

They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was getting drunk in the temporary shelters, he and the thirty-two kings who were helping him.

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,

And at noon they grope as in the night.

“And your [fn]life would be brighter than the noonday;

Darkness [then] would be like the morning.

He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light,

And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].

Evening and morning and at noon I will complain and murmur,

And He will hear my voice.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves,

Where do you pasture your flock,

Where do you make it lie down at noon?

For why should I be like one who is veiled

Beside the flocks of your companions?”

[Say to the ruler] “Give us advice, make a decision [for Moab, king of Judah];

Cast your shadow [over us] like night in the midst of noon;

Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitive [to his pursuer].

And if you offer yourself to [assist] the hungry

And satisfy the [fn]need of the afflicted,

Then your light will rise in darkness

And your gloom will become like midday.

We grope for a wall like the blind,

We grope like those who have no eyes.

We stumble at midday as in the twilight;

Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.

“[They shout], ‘Prepare for war against her;

Arise, let us [take her by surprise and] attack her at noon.

But alas, the daylight pales,

The evening shadows grow long.

“I will make their widows more numerous before Me

Than the sand of the seas;

I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men,

A [fn]destroyer at noonday;

I will suddenly cause anguish and terror

To fall on her.

And let that man be like the cities

Which the LORD overthrew without regret.

Let him hear an outcry in the morning

And a shout of alarm at noon;

“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord GOD,

“That I shall cause the sun to go down at noon,

And I shall darken the earth in broad daylight.

For [this is the fate of the Philistines:] Gaza will be abandoned

And Ashkelon a desolation;

[The people of] Ashdod will be driven out at noon [in broad daylight]

And Ekron will be uprooted and destroyed.