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Lexicon :: Strong's H570 - 'emeš

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אֶמֶשׁ
Transliteration
'emeš
Pronunciation
eh'-mesh
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
Unknown derivation
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TWOT Reference: 120

Strong’s Definitions

אֶמֶשׁ ʼemesh, eh'-mesh; time past, i.e. yesterday or last night:—former time, yesterday(-night)

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's H570 in the following manner: yesternight (3x), former time (1x), yesterday (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's H570 in the following manner: yesternight (3x), former time (1x), yesterday (1x).

  1. yesterday, last night

  2. recently (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶמֶשׁ ʼemesh, eh'-mesh; time past, i.e. yesterday or last night:—former time, yesterday(-night)
STRONGS H570: Abbreviations
† אֶ֫מֶשׁ adverb yesterday (etymology dubious; MV after Fl De on Job 30:3 compare Sta§ 256 c derive from √ משׁה = Arabic مسا, whence مَسَاَءً, evening; see also in Thes, & compare Assyrian mušu, night COTGloss, Ethiopic ምሌት፡ but also Arabic أَمْس = Assyrian amšatu, yesterday) = last night Genesis 19:34; Genesis 31:29, 42 (אָ֑מֶשׁ); = recently 2 Kings 9:26. — Job 30:3 שׁוֺאָה א׳ is difficult & uncertain Thes MV and others darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV, but dubious, compare Di; G. Hoffm. reads אֵם שׁ׳ = the mother of (all) the ruined (said of the desert).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:34; 31:29; 31:42

2 Kings

9:26

Job

30:3; 30:3

H570

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Strong's Number H570 matches the Hebrew אֶמֶשׁ ('emeš),
which occurs 5 times in 5 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your[fn] father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the LORD—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - Through want and hard hunger
they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
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