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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 - So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, "Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, 'Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.'

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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, the one whom Isaac fears - had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - '"Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday," says the LORD, "and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land," says the LORD.' So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as the LORD said."

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
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