כְּעֶנֶת
kᵉʻeneth · H3706 · Aramaic · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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and now
A marker indicating that an important statement is following and demanding the attention of the listener
ExamplesEzra 4:10 and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. And now
Ezra 4:11 this is a copy of the letter which they sent to him: “To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men of the region beyond the Euphrates River; and now
Ezra 7:12 “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, perfect peace. And now
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- τότε tóte · G5119 · then
- Greek temporal adverb indicating 'at that time' or 'then,' serving as the standard translation equivalent for Aramaic temporal expressions like כְּעֶנֶת that denote a specific point in time.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Identifiers004003
- Ezra 4:11 introduces the accusatory letter to Artaxerxes, “this is a copy of the letter which they sent to him: ‘To King Artaxerxes: Your servants, the men of the region beyond the Euphrates River; and now.’”
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3706. keeneth or keeth כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (Ezr 4:17) contracted כְּעֶת adverb now (feminine…
or keeth כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (Ezr 4:17) contracted כְּעֶת adverb now (feminine of כְּעַן; so first SS TorreyJBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת CowleyPSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 ( = RES492-4 = S-CM, N, O); ׳וכ formerly taken to mean and so forth); — always ׳וּכ, and always in a letter, introducing the business of the letter, and to be connected with what follows, not, as ᵑ0, with what precedes: Ezr 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of Ezr 4:11), Ezr 4:11 (joining to Ezr 4:12) and now, let it be known, etc., Ezr 4:17f. and now, the letter which, etc., Ezr 7:12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2Ki 5:6; 2Ki 10:2, and καὶ νῦν2Macc 1:6).
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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