זָמַן
zâman · H2163 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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Action by which someone makes a decision regarding the time that a certain event is to take place (to fix (a time))
ExamplesEzra 10:14 “Please let our leaders represent all the assembly and have all those in our cities who have married foreign wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”
Nehemiah 10:34 Likewise we cast lots for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites, and the people so that they could bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers’ households, at set times annually, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law;
Nehemiah 13:31 and I arranged for the delivery of wood at appointed times and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- יָעַד yâʻad · H3259 · to be set, to be placed, to be directed
- Hebrew verb for appointing a time or place to meet, designating or setting an appointed time, semantically overlapping with זָמַן in the sense of designating a specific time.
In the other Testament 2 words
- τάσσω tássō · G5021 · to appoint, to designate, to assign
- Greek verb commonly used for appointing or ordering, especially in contexts of setting times or making arrangements, paralleling the Hebrew זָמַן in its sense of appointing or designating a time/event.
- ὁρίζω horízō · G3724 · to decide, to determine, to resolve
- Greek verb for determining or fixing boundaries and appointments, including temporal appointments, matching the semantic range of זָמַן as appointing or setting a designated time.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- זָמַם denotes appointing, purposing, or planning something, as at Ezra 10:14 — "come at appointed times" (the appointing/setting of a time) — and Nehemiah 13:31 — "I arranged for the delivery of wood at appointed times."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2163. zaman [זָמַן] verb (Aramaic and late) only Pu`al Participle be fixed, appointed,…
[זָמַן] verb (Aramaic and late) only
Pu`al Participle be fixed, appointed, of time (Arabic continue, Aramaic Pa`el זַמֵּן, summon to fixed time or place, invite, appoint; compare זִמָ֑ן below) — מְזֻמָּנִים עִתִּים Ezr 10:14; Neh 10:35; ׳ע מְזֻמָּנוֺת Neh 13:31.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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