אֱדַ֫יִן
then
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where H116 appears in the Book of Ezra — 10 distinct verses. 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
- 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.
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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