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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
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6256 matches the Hebrew עֵת (ʿēṯ),
which occurs 296 times in 258 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 6 (Jdg 21:22–2Ch 30:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:22 - “And it will be when their fathers or their brothers come to contend with us, that we shall say to them, ‘Be gracious to us concerning them because we did not take for each man of Benjamin [fn]a wife in the battle, [fn]and you did not give your daughters to them; otherwise you would now H6256 be guilty.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - Then the sons of Israel went away from there at that time H6256, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 -

At mealtime H6256 Boaz said to her, “[fn]Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he [fn]served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:20 - And about the time H6256 of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - “About this time H6256 tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over My people Israel; and he will save My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have regarded My people because their cry has come to Me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:19 - So it happened at the time H6256 when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 -

Then Jonathan said to David, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have examined my father about this time H6256 tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and reveal it in your ear?

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:1 -

Now it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time H6256 when [fn]kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 -

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 -

So Yahweh [fn]sent a pestilence against Israel from the morning until the appointed time H6256, and 70,000 men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:65 -

So Solomon celebrated the feast at that time H6256, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from [fn]Lebo-hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:4 - Now it happened at the time H6256 that Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not [fn]wholly devoted to Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - Now it happened at that time H6256, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now [fn]he had covered himself with a new cloak; and both of them were alone in the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:1 -

At that time H6256 Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 -

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time H6256 of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your [fn]life as the [fn]life of one of them by about this time H6256 tomorrow.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:6 - but about this time H6256 tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your house and the houses of your servants; and [fn]whatever is desirable in your eyes, they will put in their hand and carry away.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - Then he said, “At this season [fn]next year H6256 you will embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God, do not lie to your servant-woman.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:17 -

Then the woman conceived and bore a son at that season [fn]the next year H6256, as Elisha had said to her.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 -

Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time H6256 to receive money and to receive clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female slaves?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 -

Then Elisha said, “Listen to the word of Yahweh; thus says Yahweh, ‘About this time H6256 tomorrow a [fn]seah of fine flour will be sold for a [fn]shekel, and two [fn]seahs of barley for a [fn]shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:18 - So it happened just as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two [fn]seahs of barley for a shekel and a [fn]seah of fine flour for a shekel will be sold tomorrow about this time H6256 at the gate of Samaria.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:22 - So Edom revolted [fn]against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time H6256.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:6 - Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me about this time H6256 tomorrow at Jezreel.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:6 - At that time H6256 Rezin king of Aram restored Elath for Aram and cleared the Judeans out of [fn]Elath entirely; and the [fn]Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16 - At that time H6256 Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahweh and from the doorposts, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:12 -

At that time H6256 [fn]Berodach-baladan a son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:10 -

At that time H6256 the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:25 - And their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time H6256 to time H6256 to be with [fn]them;
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:22 - For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great camp like the camp of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:32 -

Of the sons of Issachar, men who knew how to discern the times H6256, to know what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their relatives were at their command.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:1 -

Now it happened [fn]in the spring, at the time H6256 when kings go out to battle, that Joab led out the force of the military and brought the land of the sons of Ammon to ruin, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and [fn]tore it down.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:28 -

At that time H6256, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:29 - Now the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were in the high place at Gibeon at that time H6256.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:30 - with all his reign, his might, and the circumstances H6256 which came on him, on Israel, and on all the kingdoms of the lands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8 -

So Solomon celebrated the feast at that time H6256 for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly from [fn]Lebo-hamath to the brook of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:18 - Thus the sons of Israel were subdued at that time H6256, and the sons of Judah were strong because they leaned upon Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:5 - “Now in those times H6256 there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for much confusion was upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 -

Now at that time H6256 Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you have leaned on the king of Aram and have not leaned on Yahweh your God, therefore the military force of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Then Asa was vexed with the seer and put him in [fn]prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time H6256.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 - Now the battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans until the evening; and at sunset he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - When H6256 they began singing for joy and praising, Yahweh set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were [fn]defeated.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:10 - So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time H6256 from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 - Now it happened in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died with this greatly painful disease. And his people made no fire for him like the fire for his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:11 - Now it happened that whenever H6256 the chest was brought in to the king’s officer by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, then the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer would come, empty the chest, take it, and return it to its place. Thus they did daily and collected much money.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:27 - Now from the time H6256 that Amaziah turned away from following Yahweh they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:16 -

At that time H6256 King Ahaz sent to the [fn]kings of Assyria for help.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 -

Now in the time H6256 of his distress this same King Ahaz became yet more unfaithful to Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27 - Then Hezekiah said to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When H6256 the burnt offering began, the song to Yahweh also began with the trumpets, [fn]accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:3 - since they could not celebrate it at that time H6256, because the priests had not set themselves apart as holy in sufficient numbers, nor had the people been gathered to Jerusalem.

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