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Lexicon :: Strong's H6256 - ʿēṯ

Aa
עֵת
Transliteration
ʿēṯ
Pronunciation
ayth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1650b

Strong’s Definitions

עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x

The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x
The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. time

    1. time (of an event)

    2. time (usual)

    3. experiences, fortunes

    4. occurrence, occasion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.
STRONGS H6256: Abbreviations
עֵת 297 noun feminineAmos 5:13 and (seldom, mostly late) masculineEzra 10:14 time (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician עת; Assyrian inu, ittu, time; Talmud עַנְתָּא; clearly from a √ ענה, but doubtful whether I. ע׳); — absolute ע׳ Hosea 10:12 +, construct ע׳ Genesis 24:12 + עֶתֿ Leviticus 15:25 + 5 times; suffix עִתּוֺ Hosea 2:11 +, etc.; plural, late, עִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32 +, suffix עִתֶּיךָ, Isaiah 33:6; עִתּוֺת Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1, suffix עִתֹּתָ֑י Psalm 31:16; — ע׳ only twice P, once H; —
1. time of an event, etc.:
a. usually (213 times) with preposition: with בְּ (142 times), especially הַהִוא בָּע׳ Genesis 21:22 (E) in that time, Genesis 38:1 (J), Numbers 22:4 (E), Deuteronomy 1:9 + 14 times Deuteronomy; הַהִיא בָּע׳ Joshua 5:2; Amos 5:13; Daniel 12:1 (twice in verse). + (69 times, not in P); הַזּאֹת בָּע׳ Esther 4:14, בָּעִתִּים הָהֵם 2 Chronicles 15:5; Daniel 11:14; בְּכָלעֵֿת at all times Exodus 18:22, 26 (E), Leviticus 16:2 (P) Psalm 34:2 +; = continually Proverbs 8:30, בְּכָלעֵֿת אֲשֶׁר Esther 5:13 as long as I see Mordecai; with לְ (31 times; compare ל 6 above), 2 Samuel 11:1 + at the time, but Ezekiel 12:27 for distant times, compare לְעֵת כָּזֹאת Esther 4:14, etc.; with כְּ (21 times; compare כ 1a above), הַזּאֹת מָחָר כָּע׳ Joshua 11:6 (JE) tomorrow about this time, usually מָחָר כָּע׳ (KöSynt. 401 o) Exodus 9:18 (J), 1 Samuel 9:16 (compare Dr), 1 Samuel 20:12; 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 20:6; 2 Kings 7:1, 18; 2 Kings 10:6†; כָּעֵת חַיָה; † כָּעֵת הָרִאשׁוֺן Isaiah 8:23 at the former time; כָּעֵת alone Numbers 23:23 (JE) at this time = now (probably, compare Di), Judges 13:23; Judges 21:22†, etc.; with מִן (8 times), מִן הָעֵת הַהִא Nehemiah 13:21, etc.; with עַד (12 times), הַהִיא עַדהָֿע׳ Nehemiah 6:1 up to that time, מֵעֵת עַדעֵֿת Ezekiel 4:10, 11 etc. (5 times Daniel); with אלֿ, מֵעֵת אֶלעֵֿת 1 Chronicles 9:25.
b. often construct defined by noun following: בְּעֵת צָהֳרָ֑יִם Jeremiah 20:16, לְעֵת (הָ)עֶרֶב 2 Samuel 11:12; Genesis 8:11; Genesis 24:11 (both J), Isaiah 17:14; Zechariah 14:7; עַדעֵֿת הָעָ֑רֶב Joshua 8:29 (JE), כְּעֵת מִנְחַת עֶרֶב Daniel 9:21, redundantly לְעֶתיֿוֺם בְּיוֺם 1 Chronicles 12:22, (ה)קָצִיר ע׳ Jeremiah 50:16; Jeremiah 51:33, הַוָּמִיר ע׳ Songs 2:12, וִקְנָה ע׳ 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:23; Psalm 71:9, אַפְּךָ בְּע׳ Jeremiah 18:23 = פָּנֶיךָ לְע׳ Psalm 21:10 (of anger), לְעִתּוֺת בַּצָּרָה Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1 at time destitution (see בַּצָּרָה), etc.
c. followed by infinitive בּוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ לְע׳ Joshua 10:27 (JE), 2 Chronicles 18:34, קָרְאָם בְּע׳ Jeremiah 11:14a (read בְּעֵת also Jeremiah 11:14b, Gie), etc.
d. followed by clause with finite verb (in poetry or late) Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 6:17; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 24:11; 29:27 + (compare 2c).
2.
a. = usual time: צֵאת לְע׳ 2 Samuel 11:1 at time of kings' going forth = 1 Chronicles 20:1; בְּעֵת יַחֵם Genesis 31:10; עֵת לֶדֶת Job 39:1, 2.
b. proper, suitable time: rain בְּעִתּוֺ Deuteronomy 11:14 Jeremiah 5:24 +, compare Leviticus 26:4 (H), also Psalm 1:3; Psalm 104:27; Psalm 145:15; Proverbs 15:23; Isaiah 60:22; Ecclesiastes 3:11 עֵת מִלְחָמָה Ecclesiastes 3:8; שָׁלוֺם ע׳ Ecclesiastes 3:8; followed by infinitive Hosea 10:12, הַעֵת לָקַחַת 2 Kings 5:26 is it a time to take money? Haggai 1:4, עֶתבֵּֿית לְהִבָּנוֺת י׳ Haggai 1:2 (Haggai 1:2a read עַתָּ בָּא Hi We Now and others); עֵת לַעֲשׂוֺת Psalm 119:126, compare Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 (26 times); absolute כִּי עֵת Hosea 13:13 (Hi We and others; GuKau gives עַתָּ; > Now כָּעֵת); absolute with negative Job 22:16; Ecclesiastes 7:17; hence (late) יוֺדְעֵי בִינָה לָעִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32, יִדְעֵי הָעִתִּים Esther 1:13 i.e. astrologers, etc.
c. appointed time, בְּעֵת תֵּת וגו׳ 1 Samuel 18:19 at the appointed time of giving, Ezekiel 7:7, 12; Isaiah 13:22, פְּקֻדָּתָם ע׳ Jeremiah 8:12; Jeremiah 10:15 = Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:27 compare (with finite verb) Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 49:8; Jeremiah 50:31, אַרְצוֺ ע׳ Jeremiah 27:7, גּוֺיִם ע׳ Ezekiel 30:3,לְעִתִּים מְזֻמָּנִים Ezra 10:14; Nehemiah 10:35 compareNehemiah 13:31; מוֺעֵד עַדעֿ׳ 2 Samuel 24:15; Psalm 103:14 (|| מוֺעֵד), etc.; compare וּמִשְׁפָּט עֵת Ecclesiastes 8:5, 6 (for time of judgment),עִתּוֺ Ecclesiastes 9:12; especially לְעֵת קֵץ Daniel 8:7; compare Daniel 11:35, 40; Daniel 12:4, 9, עֲוֺן קֵץ כְּע׳ Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 21:34; compare Ezekiel 35:5; לְקֵץ הָעִתִּים Daniel 11:13.
d. as uncertain עֵת וָפֶגַע Ecclesiastes 9:11.
3. = experiences, fortunes, plural אֱמוּנַת עִתֶּיךָ Isaiah 33:6; Psalm 31:16; הָעִתִּים אֲשֶׁר עָֽבְרוּ עָלָיו 1 Chronicles 29:30
† 4. occurrence, occasions (= פַּעַם), רַבּוֺת עִתִּים Nehemiah 9:28 great numbers of times (= very often).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 21:22; 24:11; 24:12; 31:10; 38:1

Exodus

9:18; 18:22; 18:26

Leviticus

15:25; 16:2; 26:4

Numbers

22:4; 23:23

Deuteronomy

1:9; 11:14; 32:35

Joshua

5:2; 8:29; 10:27; 11:6

Judges

13:23; 21:22

1 Samuel

9:16; 18:19; 20:12

2 Samuel

11:1; 11:1; 11:12; 24:15

1 Kings

11:4; 15:23; 19:2; 20:6

2 Kings

5:26; 7:1; 7:18; 10:6

1 Chronicles

9:25; 12:22; 12:32; 12:32; 20:1; 29:30

2 Chronicles

15:5; 18:34; 20:22; 24:11; 29:27

Ezra

10:14; 10:14

Nehemiah

6:1; 9:28; 10:35; 13:21

Esther

1:13; 4:14; 4:14; 5:13

Job

6:17; 22:16; 39:1; 39:2

Psalms

1:3; 9:10; 9:10; 10:1; 10:1; 21:10; 31:16; 31:16; 34:2; 71:9; 103:14; 104:27; 119:126; 145:15

Proverbs

8:30; 15:23

Ecclesiastes

3:2; 3:3; 3:4; 3:5; 3:6; 3:7; 3:8; 3:8; 3:8; 3:11; 7:17; 8:5; 8:6; 9:11; 9:12

Song of Songs

2:12

Isaiah

13:22; 17:14; 33:6; 33:6; 60:22

Jeremiah

5:24; 6:15; 8:12; 10:15; 11:14; 11:14; 18:23; 20:16; 27:7; 46:21; 49:8; 50:16; 50:27; 50:31; 51:18; 51:33

Ezekiel

4:10; 4:11; 7:7; 7:12; 12:27; 21:30; 30:3; 35:5

Daniel

8:7; 9:21; 11:13; 11:14; 11:35; 11:40; 12:1; 12:4; 12:9

Hosea

2:11; 10:12; 10:12; 13:13

Amos

5:13; 5:13

Haggai

1:2; 1:2; 1:4

Zechariah

14:7

H6256

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Strong's Number H6256 matches the Hebrew עֵת (ʿēṯ),
which occurs 296 times in 258 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 8:11–Jdg 21:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:14 - Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 - Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:18 - Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - The Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, your brother, that he may not come at all times into the holy place inside the veil, before the cover which is on the ark, for fear that death may overtake him; for I will be seen in the cloud on the cover of the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 - Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 - No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:9 - At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:18 - And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:21 - And I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen what the Lord your God has done to these two kings: so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:23 - And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 - (I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8 - At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 - Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:10 - At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.

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