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עֲדֶן

ʻăden · H5728 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. still, so far

    A period of time stretching from an unspecified moment in the past until the present, and about which it is uncertain whether it will continue or not

    Examples

    Ecclesiastes 4:2 So I congratulated the dead who are already dead, more than the living who are still living.

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
עוֹד ʻôwd · H5750 · still, again, yet
Hebrew עוֹד (od) is the primary near-synonym for temporal 'yet/still' meanings; both express continuation or persistence, though עוֹד is far more common (over 400 occurrences vs. 2 for עֲדֶן).
In the other Testament 1 word
ἔτι éti · G2089 · still, yet, longer
Greek ἔτι (eti) is the standard translation equivalent for temporal 'yet/still' in Hebrew; both express continuation or persistence of a state up to a reference point.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Endure002002003001
A rare Aramaic adverb meaning yet or still, occurring in Daniel's account of the word still being in the king's mouth when judgment fell on Nebuchadnezzar.
Word family 12 words

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

עָדָה ʻâdâh · H5710 · to pass by, to cross, to come to an end · 10×עַד ʻad · H5704 · to, as far as, until · 1262×עַתָּה ʻattâh · H6258 · now, therefore, now then · 433×עֵת ʻêth · H6256 · time, moment, period · 296×בְּעַד bᵉʻad · H1157 · access, through, out of · 105×עַד ʻad · H5703 · to, as far as, until · 48×עַד ʻad · H5705 · and, at, for · 35×עֲדִי ʻădîy · H5716 · ornament, jewel, trappings · 14×עֲדָא ʻădâʼ · H5709 · alter, depart, pass · 9×עַד ʻad · H5706 · to, as far as, until · 3×עֲדֶןʻăden · H5728עִתִּי ʻittîy · H6261 · ready, available · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5728. aden or adenah עֲדֶ֫נָֿה Ecc 4:2 Baer Ginsb (al. עֲדֶ֫נָּה), abbreviated עֲדֶן Ecc…
H5728. aden
or adenah עֲדֶ֫נָֿה Ecc 4:2 Baer Ginsb (al. עֲדֶ֫נָּה), abbreviated עֲדֶן Ecc 4:3
(from עַלהֵֿן עַדהֵֿנָּה,; compare Late Hebrew עֲדַיִן e. g. Ned. Ecc 9:10),
adverb hitherto, still.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Endure2 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

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