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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).
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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 morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I could destroy you, but the God of your father appeared to me last night and warned me, ‘Leave Jacob alone!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac[fn]—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on this plot of land, says the LORD, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday.’ So throw him out on Naboth’s property, just as the LORD said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - They are gaunt with hunger
and flee to the deserts,
to desolate and gloomy wastelands.
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