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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 4 / 6 (Pro 15:23–Jer 18:23)

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:23 -

A man has gladness in an [fn]apt answer,

And how good is a timely H6256 word!

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 -

A friend loves at all times H6256,

And a brother is born for adversity.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 -

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time H6256 for every [fn]matter under heaven

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2 -

A time H6256 to give birth and a time H6256 to die;

A time H6256 to plant and a time H6256 to uproot what is planted.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3 -

A time H6256 to kill and a time H6256 to heal;

A time H6256 to tear down and a time H6256 to build up.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 -

A time H6256 to weep and a time H6256 to laugh;

A time H6256 to mourn and a time H6256 to dance.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 -

A time H6256 to throw stones and a time H6256 to gather stones;

A time H6256 to embrace and a time H6256 to shun embracing.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6 -

A time H6256 to search and a time H6256 to lose;

A time H6256 to keep and a time H6256 to throw away.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7 -

A time H6256 to tear apart and a time H6256 to sew together;

A time H6256 to be silent and a time H6256 to speak.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8 -

A time H6256 to love and a time H6256 to hate;

A time H6256 for war and a time H6256 for peace.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He has made everything [fn]beautiful in its time H6256. He has also set eternity in their heart, [fn]yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I said in my heart, “God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time H6256 for every [fn]matter and for every work is there.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a simpleminded fool. Why should you die before your time H6256?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5 -

He who keeps a royal command experiences no evil thing, for a wise heart knows the proper time H6256 and custom.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - For there is a proper time H6256 and custom for every [fn]matter, though a man’s trouble is multiplied upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this I have seen and given my heart to every work that has been done under the sun wherein a man has power over another man to his calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - Let your clothes be white all the time H6256, and let not oil be lacking on your head.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 -

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the mighty, and neither is bread to the wise nor riches to the discerning nor favor to men who know; for time H6256 and misfortune overtake them all.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, man does not know his time H6256: like fish seized in an evil net and birds seized in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time H6256 when it suddenly falls on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:17 - Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time H6256—for might and not for drinking.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:12 -

‘The flowers have appeared in the land;

The time H6256 for [fn]pruning has arrived;

And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 -

[fn]But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times H6256 He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the [fn]Gentiles.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 -

[fn]And hyenas will howl in their fortified towers

And jackals in their luxurious palaces.

Her fateful time H6256 also [fn]will soon come

And her days will not be prolonged.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 -

At evening time H6256, behold, there is terror!

Before morning they are no more.

[fn]Such will be the portion of those who pillage us

And the lot of those who plunder us.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 -

At that time H6256 a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts

[fn]From a people [fn]tall and smooth,

Even from a people feared [fn]far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation,

Whose land the rivers divide

To the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, even Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2 - at that time H6256 Yahweh spoke by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 -

O Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have hoped in You.

Be [fn]their [fn]strength every morning,

Our salvation also in the time H6256 of distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6 -

And He will be the [fn]stability of your times H6256,

A wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;

The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 -

At that time H6256 Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and was growing stronger.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16 -

“Draw near to Me, hear this:

From the first I have not spoken in secret,

From the time H6256 it took place, I was there.

So now Lord Yahweh has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“In an acceptable time H6256 I have answered You,

And in a day of salvation I have helped You;

And I will guard You and give You for a covenant of the people,

To establish the land, to make them inherit the desolate [fn]inheritance;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:22 -

“The smallest one will become a [fn]clan,

And the miniscule one a mighty nation.

I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time H6256.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17 -

“Have you not done this to yourself

By your forsaking Yahweh your God

When H6256 He led you in the way?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 -

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’

And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’

For they have turned their back to Me

And not their face;

But in the time H6256 when their evil comes they will say,

‘Arise and save us.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 -

“But where are your gods

Which you made for yourself?

Let them arise, if they can save you

In the time H6256 when your evil comes;

For according to the number of your cities

Are your gods, O Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - “At that time H6256 they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of Yahweh,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of Yahweh; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 -

In that time H6256 it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A [fn]scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness along the way of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 -

‘They do not say in their heart,

“Let us now fear Yahweh our God,

Who gives rain in its season H6256,

Both the [fn]early rain and the [fn]late rain,

Who keeps for us

The appointed weeks of the harvest.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 -

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?

They were not even ashamed at all;

They did not even know how to feel dishonor.

Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;

At the time H6256 that I punish them,

They shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 -

“At that time H6256,” declares Yahweh, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 -

“Even the stork in the sky

Knows her seasons;

And the turtledove and the swift and the crane

Keep the time H6256 of their [fn]migration;

But My people do not know

The legal judgment of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:12 -

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?

They certainly were not ashamed,

And they did not know how to feel dishonor;

Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;

At the time H6256 of their [fn]punishment they shall be brought down,”

Says Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15 -

We waited for peace, but there was no good;

For a time H6256 of healing, but behold, terror!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 -

They are vanity, a work of mockery;

In the time H6256 of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time H6256 of their calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 -

“But as for you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them; for I will not listen when H6256 they call to Me because of their calamity.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“O Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time H6256 of distress,

Why are You like a sojourner in the land

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent to lodge for the night?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 -

Have You completely rejected Judah?

Or [fn]have You loathed Zion?

Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us?

We hoped for peace, but there was no good;

And for a time H6256 of healing, but behold, terror!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:11 -

Yahweh said, “Surely I will set you free for purposes of good;

Surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you

In a time H6256 of disaster and a time H6256 of distress.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 -

Yet You, O Yahweh, know

All their [fn]deadly counsel against me;

Do not atone for their iniquity

Or blot out their sin from before You.

But may they be [fn]overthrown before You;

Deal with them in the time H6256 of Your anger!


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