Strong's #5939: `alatah (pronounced al-aw-taw')

feminine from an unused root meaning to cover; dusk:--dark, twilight.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ălâṭâh

1) thick darkness

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to cover

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 15:17: "that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning"
Ezekiel 12:6: "it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not"
Ezekiel 12:7: "through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bore it upon my shoulder in their sight."
Ezekiel 12:12: "them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out"