KOPH.
(147) Prevented. — See Psalms 18:5; Psalms 79:8. The Authorised Version gives the sense, I was up before the morning.
Dawning of the morning. — The Hebrew word means literally “breath,” and is used of the fresh breeze that blows both at sunset (Job 24:15; Proverbs 7:9) and sunrise (Job 7:4). Generally in our version rendered “twilight.”