Word: בוקר or בקר
Representation: BVKR or BQR
Transliteration: Boker
Noun: "morning"
Strong Concordance: H1242
Exposition
This word appears less than 200 times in the Tanach. It is it normally a transitional term for "going into the day" and "dawn" is normally used to express the very beginning of the day, which the Sages expressed as when the first pillars of light can be seen peeking over the horizon.
In the case of Genesis-1 with the formula "And it was evening, it was morning..." it speaks of a passage of time, going from darkness laying above the heavens, and being pulled away so that the light can reside there, going from night to day, transitioning from evening to morning.
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