אֵפוֹ
ʼêphôw · H645 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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then, now, so
Particle linking two propositions, by which Y represents the purpose or result of X
ExamplesGenesis 27:33 Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate from all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”
Genesis 27:37 But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and I have given to him all his relatives as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”
Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a gift, a little balsam and a little honey, labdanum resin and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Perception002004
- אֵפוֹ functions as an intensifying particle in a question, "then" or "now," pressing for clarity in what is being asked or perceived.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H645. epho אֵפוֺ (Job 17:15; Job 19:6, Job 19:23; Job 24:25), elsewhere אֵפוֺא (compare…
אֵפוֺ (Job 17:15; Job 19:6, Job 19:23; Job 24:25), elsewhere אֵפוֺא (compare רִבּוֺ and רִבּוֺא ),
enclitic particle then (probably from מּוֺ, a particle with a demonstrative force, compare מֹּה מּוֺ, here, with א prefixed. In the Targs. מּוֺן is used somewhat similarly, e.g. Gen 26:10; Num 11:29; Isa 1:9; Isa 48:18-19,), — used
1 in connection with interrogatory pronouns or adverbs (like ἄρα, ποτε tandem): אֵפוֺא מִי Gen 27:3 who, then, . . . ? Gen 27:37; אֶעֱשֶׂה מָה אֵפוֺא וּלְכָה and for thee, then, what shall I do, my son ? Exo 33:16 אֵפוֺא יִוָּדַע וּבַמֶּה and wherein shall it be known, then...? אֵפוֺא אַיה where, then ? Jdg 9:38; Isa 19:12; Job 17:15; Hos 13:10 אֵפוֺא מַלְכְךָ אֱהִי Isa 22:1 אֵפוֺא מַהלָּֿח what is there to thee, pray. . .?
2 in a command or wish : 2Ki 10:10 אֵפוֺא דְּעוּ ? know, then; (in apodosis) Pro 6:3; Job 19:6, Job 19:23 מִלָּי֑ וְיִכָּֽתְבוּן אֵפוֺ מִיּיִֿתֵּן would, then, that my words were written !
3 after אִם Gen 43:11 עֲשׂו זאֹת אֵפוֺא אִםכֵּֿן if it be so, then, do this, Job 9:24 if not then, who is it ? Job 24:25.
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
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