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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 - And on the next day, the first-born 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 through 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 father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed that you speak to Jacob neither good nor 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--says the LORD--I will requite you on this plot of ground.' Now therefore take him up and cast 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 and desolate ground;
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