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Lexicon :: Strong's H6258 - ʿatâ

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עַתָּה
Transliteration
ʿatâ
Pronunciation
at-taw'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650c

Strong’s Definitions

עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

  1. now

    1. now

    2. in phrases

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.
STRONGS H6258: Abbreviations
עַתָּ֫ה 435 (also Ezekiel 23:43; Psalm 74:6 עת Kt, Qr עַתָּה), עָ֑֫תָּה Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4] +, adverb of time, now (properly accusative of [`int], עֵת (Köii. 260), at the time, in particular of the present time, i.e. now; compare German zur Zeit, Arabic bdb077401at the time, i.e. now); — now:
1.
a. Genesis 12:19 ועתה הנה אשׁתך and now, behold thy wife, Genesis 22:12 ידעתי עתה ידעתי now, I know (so Exodus 18:11; Judges 17:13; H20881 Kings 17:24 [עַתָּה זֶה], Psalm 20:7 [Psalm 20:6]), Genesis 26:22, Genesis 26:29; H2088Genesis 27:36; Genesis 31:13, Genesis 31:28, etc., Exodus 5:5 הך רבים עתה עם הארץ; whether in opposed to past time, as Genesis 32:11 [Genesis 32:10]; Joshua 14:11 כְּכֹחִי אָז וּכְכֹחִי עָ֑תָּה, Judges 11:8; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 1:21 ועתה מרצחים, Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 2:9 [Hosea 2:7] כִּי טוֺב לִי אָז מַעָ֑תָּה, Hosea 13:2, Job 30:1 +, or to future, as Numbers 24:17 אֶרְאֶנּוּ ולא עתה, Judges 8:6 חֲכַף עַתָּה־בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ זֶבַח וצ׳, 1 Samuel 2:16 כִּי עַתָּה תִּתֵּן; = after all Numbers 22:38; Judges 8:2; = now at last 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:25; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 4:12; and in the phrase מעתה ועד עולם Isaiah 9:6 [Isaiah 9:7]; Isaiah 59:21; Micah 4:7 (see below), Psalm 113:2; Psalm 115:18; Psalm 121:8; Psalm 125:2; Psalm 131:3.
b. of the imminent or impending future: Genesis 19:9 מֵהֶם לְךָ נָרַע עַתָּה. Genesis 29:32 כי עתה יאהבני אישׁי, Genesis 29:34; Exodus 6:1 עתה תראה, Numbers 11:23; Numbers 22:4; 2 Samuel 20:6; Isaiah 33:10 (Psalm 12:6 [Psalm 12:5]), Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 49:19; Amos 6:7 לכן עתה יִגְלוּ, Isaiah 49:19; Micah 7:4, Micah 7:10; Daniel 10:20; and especially ἀσυνδέτως in Hosea, introducing a punishment, Hosea 4:16 וגו׳ עתה יִרְעֵם י׳ Hosea 5:7; Hosea 8:8, Hosea 8:13 (Jeremiah 14:10), Jeremiah 10:2.
c. of a time ideally present (= then, from our point of view): Isaiah 29:22 לא עתה יבושׁ יעקב, Isaiah 29:22b Hosea 10:3; Micah 4:9, Micah 4:10, Micah 4:11; Micah 4:14 [Micah 5:1]; Micah 5:3 [Micah 5:4].
d. describing a present state = as things are: 1 Samuel 8:5 thou art old, etc., עתה שִׂימָה לנו מלך, 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Samuel 13:12; 1 Samuel 14:30; 1 Samuel 25:7b; 1 Samuel 27:1 now I shall be swept away one day, etc., 2 Kings 18:20, 2 Kings 18:25; Job 6:21; Job 14:16; Job 16:7.
e. with an Imperative, as an encouragement, implying that the time has come for the exhortation or advice to be followed, Genesis 31:13 צא קום עתה, Exodus 18:19 עתה שְׁמַע בקולי, Numbers 22:11; Deuteronomy 2:13; Isaiah 30:8.
2. Phrases:
a. עַתָּה זֶה (זֶה 4h) H2088 1 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 5:22.
b. ועתה and, now, or now, therefore (וְ 4), drawing a conclusion, especially (compare 1e) a practical one, from what has been stated: Genesis 3:22 and now (since man has once been disobedient), lest he put forth his hand, etc., Genesis 20:7; Genesis 20:23 וְעַתָּה הִשָּֽׁבְעָה לִי הֵ֫נָּה, Genesis 27:3, Genesis 27:8 ועתה בני שְׁמַע בקולי, Genesis 30:30; Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:44; Genesis 37:20 + often, Isaiah 5:3, Isaiah 5:5; Psalm 2:10; Genesis 11:6 וגו׳ מֵהֶם לֹא־יִבָּצֵר ועתה, Genesis 31:30; Genesis 45:8; 2 Samuel 19:11 [2 Samuel 19:10]; Psalm 39:8 [Psalm 39:7] אֲדֹנָי מַה־קִּוִּיתִי ועתה , Isaiah 52:5.
c. וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה stating the ground on which some conclusion or action is to be based, Exodus 3:9; Joshua 14:10 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 24:21 [1 Samuel 24:20]; 1 Kings 1:18; Jeremiah 40:4 (with ועתה usually repeated afer the הנה-clause).
†d. גם עתה Genesis 44:10; 1 Samuel 12:16; 1 Kings 14:14; Joel 2:12; Job 16:19.
†e. מֵעַתָּה from now, henceforth, Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 48:6; Daniel 10:17 (according to some, here = from just now), 2 Chronicles 16:9; מעתה עולם ועד , see above 1a end.
f. עַדעַֿתָּה until now, Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4], עד־ע׳ וָאֵחַר, Deuteronomy 12:9 אל הנחלה לא באתם עד ע׳ (opposed to the future), H57042 Kings 13:23; especially after clause with מִן, 2Ki 46:34 מִנְּעוּרֵינוּ וְעַדעֿ׳ (2 Samuel 19:8 [2 Samuel 19:7]; Ezekiel 4:14), Exodus 9:18; 2 Kings 8:6; Ruth 2:7.
g. כִּי עַתָּה for in this case, in our idiom, for then (עתה pointing to a condition assumed as a possible contingency: compare Dr§ 141, 142);
† (a) Exodus 9:15 כי עתה שׁלחתי וגו׳ for then (if the intention expressed in Exodus 9:14 had not existed) I should have put forth my hand, etc., Numbers 22:29 כי עתה הֲרַגְתִּיךְ, 1 Samuel 13:13; Job 3:13; followed by imperfect Job 6:3 for then (if it were weighed, Job 6:2) it would be heavier, etc., Job 13:19 for then would I be silent and die;
(b) after a protasis, surely then Genesis 31:42 + (see כִּי 1d b, p. 472).
—Note. Read כְּמוֺ עַתָּ) (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate) as now, for כְּמוֺ עֵת Ezekiel 16:57, עַתָּ נִשְׁבַּרְתְּ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate) now art thou broken ! for עֵת נִשְׁבֶּרֶת Ezekiel 27:34, and probably עַתָּ בָּא (Hi We Kö Now, compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version) for עֶתבּֿאֹ Haggai 1:2; also עַתָּה for אַתָּה 1 Kings 1:20, and אַתָּה for עַתָּה 1 Kings 1:18b 2 Samuel 18:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:22; 11:6; 12:19; 19:9; 20:7; 22:12; 26:22; 26:29; 27:3; 27:8; 27:36; 29:32; 29:34; 30:30; 31:13; 31:13; 31:16; 31:28; 31:30; 31:42; 31:44; 32:4; 32:4; 32:10; 37:20; 44:10; 45:8

Exodus

3:9; 5:5; 6:1; 9:14; 9:15; 9:18; 18:11; 18:19

Numbers

11:23; 22:4; 22:11; 22:29; 22:38; 24:17

Deuteronomy

2:13; 12:9

Joshua

14:10; 14:11

Judges

8:2; 8:6; 11:8; 17:13

Ruth

2:7

1 Samuel

2:16; 8:5; 9:6; 12:2; 12:16; 13:12; 13:13; 14:30; 24:20; 25:7; 27:1

2 Samuel

18:3; 19:7; 19:10; 20:6; 24:16

1 Kings

1:18; 1:18; 1:20; 12:4; 14:14; 17:24; 17:24; 19:4

2 Kings

5:22; 8:6; 13:23; 18:20; 18:25; 19:25

2 Chronicles

16:9

Job

3:13; 6:2; 6:3; 6:21; 13:19; 14:16; 16:7; 16:19; 30:1

Psalms

2:10; 12:5; 20:6; 39:7; 74:6; 113:2; 115:18; 121:8; 125:2; 131:3

Isaiah

1:21; 5:3; 5:5; 9:7; 16:14; 29:22; 29:22; 30:8; 33:10; 43:19; 48:6; 49:19; 49:19; 52:5; 59:21

Jeremiah

3:4; 4:12; 10:2; 14:10; 40:4

Ezekiel

4:14; 16:57; 23:43; 27:34

Daniel

10:17; 10:20

Hosea

2:7; 4:16; 5:7; 7:2; 8:8; 8:13; 10:3; 13:2

Joel

2:12

Amos

6:7

Micah

4:7; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 5:1; 5:4; 7:4; 7:10

Haggai

1:2

H6258

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6258 matches the Hebrew עַתָּה (ʿatâ),
which occurs 29 times in 26 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How the faithful city has become a harlot, she that was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5 - And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:7 - Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD says, "In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22 - Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts upon the whole land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:22 - Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: "Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:10 - "Now I will arise," says the LORD, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:5 - Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely, that you have rebelled against me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:10 - Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:20 - So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone art the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - 'Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:19 - Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:1 - "But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children":

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:6 - "You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I make you hear new things, hidden things which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, 'Behold, I knew them.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16 - Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:5 - And now the LORD says, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength--

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:19 - "Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land--surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:5 - Now therefore what have I here, says the LORD, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the LORD, and continually all the day my name is despised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - "And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD: my spirit which is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your children, or out of the mouth of your children's children, says the LORD, from this time forth and for evermore."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:8 - Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.
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