STRONGS G1424:
δυσμή,
-ῆς,
ἡ, [from Aeschylus and Herodotus down], much more often in plural [Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3]
δυσμαί,
αἱ, (
δύω or
δύνω, which see), namely,
ἡλίου,
the setting of the sun:
Luke 12:54 [according to the reading of
T WH Tr marginal reading
ἐπὶ δ. may possibly be understood of
time (cf. Winers Grammar, 375f (352)); see
ἐπί, A. II.; others take the preposition locally,
over, in, and give
δυσμ. the meaning which follows; see
ἐπί, A. I. 1 b.];
the region of sunset, the west, [anarthrous, Winer's Grammar, 121 (115)]:
Revelation 21:13;
ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν, from all regions or nations,
Matthew 8:11;
Matthew 24:27;
Luke 13:29; in Hebrew
הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ מְבוא,
Joshua 1:4. Often in secular writings from Herodotus on, both with and without
ἡλίου.
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