זְמָן
zᵉmân · H2165 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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time
Specific moment in time that has been decided for a certain event to take place
ExamplesNehemiah 2:6 Then the king said to me, with the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a definite time.
Esther 9:27 the Jews established and made a custom for themselves, their descendants, and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation and according to their appointed time annually.
Esther 9:31 to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants, with instructions for their times of fasting and their mourning.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כֹּלall, every, whole 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- כlike/as 1
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 2 words
- עֵת ʻêth · H6256 · time, moment, period
- עֵת is the most common Hebrew word for time/season and is semantically very close to זְמָן, both denoting appointed or appropriate time. The two are functionally interchangeable in many contexts, though עֵת is far more frequent in Biblical Hebrew while זְמָן appears primarily in later/Aramaic texts.
- מוֹעֵד môwʻêd · H4150 · meeting, assembly
- מוֹעֵד shares the sense of appointed or designated time with זְמָן, particularly referring to fixed seasons or appointed times for festivals and gatherings, though מוֹעֵד carries stronger cultic/assembly connotations.
In the other Testament 2 words
- καιρός kairós · G2540 · time, occasion, period of time
- καιρός is the standard Greek equivalent for זְמָן in contexts referring to appointed time or season, particularly in Daniel's Aramaic sections where the LXX regularly renders זְמָן with καιρός (e.g., Dan 2:21, 7:12).
- χρόνος chrónos · G5550 · time, period of time, occasion
- χρόνος is a Greek term for time that emphasizes duration or chronological time, serving as a translation equivalent for זְמָן's temporal reference, though זְמָן often carries an appointed or seasonable sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- זְמָן denotes a season or appointed time, as at Esther 9:27 — "according to their appointed time annually" — and Ecclesiastes 3:1 — "There is an appointed time for everything."
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2165. zeman זְמָ֑ן noun masculine (late) appointed time, time (Arabic , Ethiopic…
זְמָ֑ן noun masculine (late) appointed time, time (Arabic , Ethiopic Biblical Aramaic, זְמַן ᵑ7, but Syriac , Mandean זיבנא, Samaritan , Palmyrene זבנא, compare ReckendZMG 1888, 394 **Mandean זנאן, see NöM 152; on Old Persian origin see Biblical Aramaic) — singular זְמָ֑ן Neh 2:6; Ecc 3:1; suffix וְכִזְמַנָּ֑ם Est 9:27, בִּזְמַנֵּיהֶם Est 9:31, (on Dagh. compare Ges§ 20. 2, c).
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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