אֱדַ֫יִן
then
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Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H116 appears — 53 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 10 verses
- Ezra 4:9 אֱדַ֜יִן adv then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
- Ezra 4:23 אֱדַ֗יִן adv Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
- Ezra 4:24 בֵּ/אדַ֗יִן prep + adv Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
- Ezra 5:2 בֵּ/אדַ֡יִן prep + adv Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
- Ezra 5:4 אֱדַ֥יִן adv Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were who were making this building.
- Ezra 5:5 וֶ/אֱדַ֛יִן conj + adv But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.
- Ezra 5:9 אֱדַ֗יִן adv Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- Ezra 5:16 אֱדַ֨יִן֙ אֱדַ֧יִן adv adv Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet it is not completed.
- Ezra 6:1 בֵּ/אדַ֛יִן prep + adv Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
- Ezra 6:13 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.
Daniel 43 verses
- Daniel 2:14 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon;
- Daniel 2:15 אֱדַ֣יִן adv he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Daniel 2:17 אֱדַ֥יִן adv Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
- Daniel 2:19 אֱדַ֗יִן אֱדַ֨יִן֙ adv adv Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
- Daniel 2:25 אֱדַ֤יִן adv Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:35 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:46 בֵּ֠/אדַיִן prep + adv Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.
- Daniel 2:48 אֱדַ֨יִן adv Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:3 בֵּ/אדַ֡יִן prep + adv Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Daniel 3:13 בֵּ/אדַ֤יִן בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ prep + adv prep + adv Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
- Daniel 3:19 בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן prep + adv Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
- Daniel 3:21 בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן prep + adv Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their [other] garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:24 אֱדַ֨יִן֙ adv Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.
- Daniel 3:26 בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv prep + adv Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire.
- Daniel 3:30 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 4:7 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 4:19 אֱדַ֨יִן adv Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, don't let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered, My lord, the dream be to those who hate you, and the interpretation of it to your adversaries.
- Daniel 5:3 בֵּ/אדַ֗יִן prep + adv Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.
- Daniel 5:6 אֱדַ֤יִן adv Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
- Daniel 5:8 אֱדַ֨יִן֙ adv Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:9 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.
- Daniel 5:13 בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ prep + adv Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?
- Daniel 5:17 בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן prep + adv Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:24 בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ prep + adv Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
- Daniel 5:29 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 6:3 אֱדַ֨יִן֙ adv Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
- Daniel 6:4 אֱדַ֨יִן adv Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
- Daniel 6:5 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
- Daniel 6:6 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever.
- Daniel 6:11 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.
- Daniel 6:12 בֵּ֠/אדַיִן prep + adv Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict: Haven't you signed an interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.
- Daniel 6:13 בֵּ֠/אדַיִן prep + adv Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn't regard you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.
- Daniel 6:14 אֱדַ֨יִן adv Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
- Daniel 6:15 בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ prep + adv Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.
- Daniel 6:16 בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן prep + adv Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. [Now] the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.
- Daniel 6:18 אֱ֠דַיִן adv Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.
- Daniel 6:19 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
- Daniel 6:21 אֱדַ֨יִן֙ adv Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live forever.
- Daniel 6:23 בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן prep + adv Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.
- Daniel 6:25 בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן prep + adv Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
- Daniel 7:1 בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ prep + adv In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
- Daniel 7:11 בֵּ/אדַ֗יִן prep + adv I saw at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I saw even until the animal was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned with fire.
- Daniel 7:19 אֱדַ֗יִן adv Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb אדין centers on the idea of “then.” The word gravitates to Daniel (81%), then Ezra. It turns up in 53 verses across 2 books, a moderately common footprint. First canonically at Ezra 4:9, it enters the text early. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H116 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 53
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 53 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #671
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 671 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 53 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 53 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 53 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Then 54×
- American Standard Version: Then 53×, Time 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Then 18×, So 11×, Thus 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Then 55×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H116 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H116 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H116 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H116 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- then, afterwards, thereupon, from that time
Word origin
אֱדַ֫יִן 57 adv. then, thereupon
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֱדַיִן
- (= h. אֲזַי, אָז; √ד־ = h. ז־) at that time, thereupon. Dan. II, 15; 17; 19.—בֵּאדַ׳ at the same time, forthwith. Ibid. 14; 35.—מן א׳ from that time. Ezra V, 16. e.g. Daniel 2:15
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 19 distinct written forms H116 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּ/אדַ֣יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:14 | 8 |
| אֱ֠דַיִן | Adverb | Daniel 5:9 | 6 |
| אֱדַ֨יִן֙ | Adverb | Daniel 2:19 | 6 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֜יִן | Adverb | Daniel 3:21 | 5 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן֙ | Adverb | Daniel 3:13 | 5 |
| אֱדַ֗יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:19 | 4 |
| אֱדַ֨יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:48 | 4 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֗יִן | Adverb | Daniel 5:3 | 3 |
| בֵּ֠/אדַיִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:46 | 3 |
| אֱדַ֤יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:25 | 2 |
| אֱדַ֥יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:17 | 2 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֡יִן | Adverb | Daniel 3:3 | 2 |
| אֱדַ֜יִן | Adverb | Ezra 4:9 | 1 |
| אֱדַ֣יִן | Adverb | Daniel 2:15 | 1 |
| אֱדַ֧יִן | Adverb | Ezra 5:16 | 1 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֛יִן | Adverb | Ezra 6:1 | 1 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֤יִן | Adverb | Daniel 3:13 | 1 |
| בֵּ/אדַ֨יִן | Adverb | Daniel 3:19 | 1 |
| וֶ/אֱדַ֛יִן | Adverb | Ezra 5:5 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 51 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 53 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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