δυσμή

δυσμή — dysmḗ

δυσμή, δυσμης, ἡ (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down), much more often in plural (Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3) δυσμαι, αἱ (δύω or δύνω, which see), namely, ἡλίου, the setting of the sun: Luk 12:54 (according to the reading of T WH Tr marginal reading ἐπί δυσμή may possibly be understood of time (cf. Winers Grammar, 375f (352)); see ἐπί, A. II.; others take the preposition locally, over, in, and give δυσμή the meaning which follows; see ἐπί, A. I. 1 b.); the region of sunset, the west, (anarthrous, Winer's Grammar, 121 (115)): Rev 21:13; ἀπό ἀνατολῶν καί δυσμῶν, from all regions or nations, Mat 8:11; Mat 24:27; Luk 13:29; in Hebrew הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ מְבוא, Jos 1:4. Often in secular writings from Herodotus on, both with and without ἡλίου.