Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 119:147

"I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words." — Psalms 119:147 (ASV)

KOPH.

Prevented. —See Psalm 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.”