The story
- Hebrew · derived fromבֶּן־שָׁחַר“son of dawn”
- English todayson of the morning
From Hebrew בֶּן־שָׁחַר (Ben-Shahar, “son of dawn”), an allusion to the practice in the Middle East of travelers rising before dawn so they would not have to travel in the heat of day.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.