Word

מָחָר

mâchâr · H4279 · Hebrew · 52 occurrences

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Meanings

tomorrow

A reference to the day after the current day

Examples
Exodus 9:5 And the LORD set a definite time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.”
Exodus 9:18 “Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Exodus 10:4 ‘For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
time to come

Literally: tomorrow; hence: a reference to a moment in the future

Examples
Exodus 13:14 “And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 6:20 “When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the LORD our God commanded you?’
Joshua 4:6 “This shall be a sign among you; when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

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

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שַׁבָּתוֹן(time of) solemn rest 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

חֹדֶשׁmonth 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 4

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

αὔριον aúrion · G839 · tomorrow, soon, very soon: Greek temporal adverb αὔριον directly translates Hebrew מָחָר in its core sense of 'tomorrow' or immediate future time, representing the standard LXX rendering of this temporal concept.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Temporal Referents003002006: מָחָר names tomorrow or the time to come, a temporal reference point relative to the present, as in Moses' repeated announcements of what will happen "tomorrow" (Exodus 8:10, 23; 9:5-6).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָחָרmâchâr · H4279מׇחֳרָת mochŏrâth · H4283 · next day · 32×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4279. machar מָחָר52 noun masculine, used often as adverb, tomorrow, in time to come…

H4279. machar
מָחָר52 noun masculine, used often as
adverb, tomorrow, in time to come (Aramaic מְחַר ; probably properly time in front, Köii. 263, compare √, and Assyrian ma—ru, front, often of time, though always of former time, of old, DlHWB 402); —
1 to-morrow (the day following the present day),
a. as substantive Exo 16:23 לְי קֹדֶשׁ שַׁבַּת ׳שַׁבָּתוֺן מָחָר to-morrow is a sabbath, etc., 1Sa 20:5 מָחָר חֹדֶשׁ to-morrow is the new moon, 1Sa 20:18; in מָחָר יוֺם Gen 30:33; Pro 27:1; Isa 56:12; in the idiomatic phrase מָחָר כָּעֵת at the like of the time, (being) to-morrow, = about to-morrow (see כְּ 1a) Exo 9:18; 1Sa 9:16; 1Sa 20:12; 1Ki 19:2; 1Ki 20:6; 2Ki 7:1, 2Ki 7:18; 2Ki 10:6; and in לְמָחָר Exo 8:19 הַזֶּה הָאֹת יִהְיֶה לְמָחָר, = for, against, to-morrow, Exo 8:6; Num 11:18; Jos 7:13; Est 5:12.
b. as adverb accusative Exo 8:25; Exo 9:5 ׳י הַזֶּה הַדָּבָר יַעֲשֶׂה מָחָר, Exo 10:4 אַרְבֶּה מָחָר מֵבִיא הִנְנִי, Exo 17:9; Exo 32:5; Num 14:25; 1Sa 11:9 etc., Jos 11:6 הַזּאֹת כָּעֵת מָחָר; opposed to הַיּוֺם Exo 19:10 וּמָחָר הַיּוֺם, Jos 22:18; 2Sa 11:12a; rhetorically, Isa 22:13 נָמוּת מָחָר כִּי.
2 = in future time, Exo 13:14 לֵאמֹר מָחָר בִנְךָ יִשְׁאָֽלְךָ כִּי = Deu 6:20; Jos 4:6, Jos 4:21; Jos 22:24, Jos 22:27, Jos 22:28; so מָחָר בְּיוֺם Gen 30:33.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Temporal Referents52 occurrences

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