אָז

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אָז adverb (compare , also Biblical Aramaic אֱדַיִן properly a substantive = time; see מֵאָז) at that time, then, whether expressing duration, or inception (= thereupon).
1 strictly temporal:
a. of past time: — without a verb Gen 12:6; Gen 13:7; Jos 14:11; 2Sa 23:14; with a perfect Gen 4:26; Exo 4:26; Jos 10:33; Jdg 8:3; Jdg 13:21; Jer 22:15 לוֺ טוֺב אָז then was it well to him (compare Jer 22:16; Hos 2:9); more usually (especially when = thereupon) with an imperfect (see Dr§ 27) Exo 15:1; Num 21:17; Jos 8:30; Jos 10:12; Jos 22:1; 1Ki 3:16; 1Ki 8:1; 1Ki 9:11 (see DrIntr.192) and elsewhere.
b. of future time (usually where some emphasis is intended), with imperfect Isa 35:5-6, Isa 60:5; Mic 3:4, rather differently Lev 26:41; 1Sa 20:12; rarely with perfect 2Sa 5:24b (will have gone forth) Isa 33:23: with an accompanying logical force, implying the fulfilment of a condition, then = if or when this has been done (with the imperfect) Gen 24:41; Exo 12:44, Exo 12:48; Deu 29:19; Jos 1:8; 1Sa 6:3; Isa 58:8-9, Jer 11:15 Hi Ke Psa 19:14; Psalm 51:21; Pro 3:23; Job 11:15; Job 13:20; Job 22:26.
c. in poetry אז is sometimes used to throw emphasis on a particular feature of the description Gen 49:4; Exo 15:15; Jdg 5:8, Jdg 5:11, Jdg 5:13, Jdg 5:19, Jdg 5:22; Isa 33:23; Isa 41:1; Hab 1:11; Psa 2:5; Psa 96:12.
d. it points back with emphasis to an infinitive with בּ 2Sa 5:24 a Psa 126:2 (twice in verse); Job 28:27; Job 33:16; to הַהוּא בַּיּוֺם (anomalously) 1Ch 16:7.
2 expressing logical sequence strictlyd: in the apodosis: — after אם (rare) for sake of special emphasis Isa 58:14; Pro 2:5; Job 9:31; = in that case, after לוּ or לוּלֵא 2Sa 2:27 hadst thou not spoken, אָז כִּי surely then had the people, etc. 2Sa 19:7; Psa 119:92; after אחלי 2Ki 5:3; Psa 119:6; after a suppressed protasis 2Ki 13:19; Job 3:13 לִי יָנוּחַ אָז יָשַׁנְתִּי I had slept, then were there rest for me; Jos 22:31 (strangely) = now, as things are; Ecc 2:15 = that being so. (122 t., besides מאז and מןאֿז. Seldom used except where some special emphasis is de-sired. 'Then' of AV RV more commonly repre-sents וְ, especially in the apodosis.)
מֵאָז (compare ), once (Jer 44:18) מִןאָֿז, literally from that time: used (a) absolutely, as adverb = in time past, of old, whether of a nearer 2Sa 15:34; Isa 16:13, or of a remoter past Isa 44:8; Isa 45:21; Isa 48:3, Isa 48:5, Isa 48:7, Isa 48:8; Psa 93:2; Pro 8:22; (b) with following General or relative clause, as preposition or conjunction = from time of, since. With substantive Rth 2:7 הַבֹּקֶר מֵאָז from time of morning Psa 76:8; with infin. Exo 4:10 דַּבֶּרְךָ מֵאָז since thy speaking unto thy servant; with finite verb Gen 39:5; Exo 5:23 וג בָּאתִי ׳וּמֵאָז and since I came unto Pharaoh, etc. Exo 9:24; Jos 14:10; Isa 14:8; Jer 44:18.