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Lexicon :: Strong's H6256 - ʿēṯ

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עֵת
Transliteration
ʿēṯ
Pronunciation
ayth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 5 / 6 (Jer 20:16–Mic 3:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:7 - And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time H6256 of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:7 - Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time H6256 of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 - At the same time, H6256 saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:15 - In those days, and at that time, H6256 will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:20 - Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 - Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time H6256 of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:8 - Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time H6256 that I will visit him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:4 - In those days, and in that time, H6256 saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:16 - Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time H6256 of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:20 - In those days, and in that time, H6256 saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 - Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time H6256 of their visitation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 - Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time H6256 that I will visit thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 - Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time H6256 of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:18 - They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time H6256 of their visitation they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:33 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time H6256 to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time H6256 of her harvest shall come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:10 - And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time H6256 to time H6256 shalt thou eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time H6256 to time H6256 shalt thou drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:7 - The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time H6256 is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:12 - The time H6256 is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:27 - Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times H6256 that are far off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time H6256 was the time H6256 of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time H6256 of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:25 - And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when H6256 iniquity shall have an end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:29 - Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when H6256 their iniquity shall have an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time H6256 may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:34 - In the time H6256 when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3 - For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time H6256 of the heathen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:26 - And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; H6256 there shall be showers of blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:5 - Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time H6256 of their calamity, in the time H6256 that their iniquity had an end:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17 - So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time H6256 of the end shall be the vision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:21 - Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time H6256 of the evening oblation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:25 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:6 - And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times. H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:13 - For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain H6256 years with a great army and with much riches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - And in those times H6256 there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:24 - He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time H6256 of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:40 - And at the time H6256 of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:1 - And at that time H6256 shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time H6256 of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: H6256 and at that time H6256 thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:4 - But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time H6256 of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9 - And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time H6256 of the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:11 - And from the time H6256 that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:9 - Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time H6256 thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:12 - Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time H6256 to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:13 - The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long H6256 in the place of the breaking forth of children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:1 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, H6256 when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:13 - Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; H6256 for it is an evil time. H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:3 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time H6256 is evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:4 - Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, H6256 as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

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