זְמַן
season
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Definite Article 6 times (55%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (27%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (18%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2166 appears — 11 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 1 verse
Daniel 10 verses
- Daniel 2:16 זְמָ֣ן n c ms Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:21 וְ/זִמְנַיָּ֔/א conj + n c mp det + ptcl def.art He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
- Daniel 3:7 זִמְנָ֡/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:8 זִמְנָ֔/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews.
- Daniel 4:36 זִמְנָ֞/א n c ms det + ptcl def.art At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counselors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to me.
- Daniel 6:10 וְ/זִמְנִין֩ conj + n c mp When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
- Daniel 6:13 וְ/זִמְנִ֤ין conj + n c mp 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 7:12 זְמַ֥ן n c ms As for the rest of the animals, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
- Daniel 7:22 וְ/זִמְנָ֣/א conj + n c ms det + ptcl def.art until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
- Daniel 7:25 זִמְנִ֣ין n c mp He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
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.
זמן (zᵉmân) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “season.” Daniel dominates its distribution — 10 of 11 verses. Spanning 11 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Ezra 5:3. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2166 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 →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 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 11 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 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: Time 4×, Times 3×, Same time 2×
- American Standard Version: Time 4×, Times 3×, Same time 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Time 2×, Times 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Time 6×, Times 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2166 across 11 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2166 across 11 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2166 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2166 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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.
- a set time, time, season
Word origin
Derived from זמן (zᵉmân) (H2165) — appointed time.
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.
זָמַן
- to arrange, designate.
- 1. to invite, esp. to a meal. B. Kam. 79ᵇ; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. מְזוּמָּן, f. מְזוּמֶּנֶת; pl. מְזוּמָּנִים, מְזוּמָּנוֹת a) invited. Pesik. R. s. 41, end מי שהוא מ׳ לסעודה he who is invited to the feast. Ib. (expl. מקראי, Is. XLVIII, 12) מְזוּמָּנִי My invited guest (Israel); a. e.—b) designated, chosen. Ber. 43ᵃ הוא מ׳ לברכה he is the one designated (by the host) to say grace. Ab. Zar. 17ᵃ מז׳ לחיי וכ׳ chosen for the bliss of futurity.—Snh. 102ᵃ עת היא מ׳ וכ׳ there is a time designated for &c. Ib. יום מזומן (not עת היא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8); Yalk. Is. 330; ib. Jer. 287.—c) ready at hand, in one’s possession. B. Mets. 102ᵃ; Sifré Deut. 227, a. e. כי יקרא פרט למ׳ ‘if it chance’ (Deut. XXII, 6) this excludes that which is at thy disposal (in thy court yard); a. e.—2) to appoint a meal in common, so as to say grace together; to preface the grace after meal by saying, Let us praise &c.; v. זִימּוּן. Ber. VII, 1 שלשה … חייבין לזַמֵּן if three dine together, they are bound to make an appointment for common grace. Ib. מְזַמְּנִין עליו common grace may be appointed by making him one of the party (offering him something to eat). Ib. אין מ׳ עליהן you cannot count them in (to make up the requisite number). Ib. 2 עד כמה מזמנין how much must one eat of the meal in order to be counted one of the company? Ib. 3 כיצד מ׳ how is the appeal for common grace made?; a. fr. e.g. Isaiah 48:12
- 1. to cause to prepare, to notify. Dem. VII, 1 המַזְמִין את הבירו וכ׳ if one notifies his friend that he will dine with him (on the Sabbath).
- 2. to designate for use; v. הַזְמָנָה. Ber. 26ᵃ הִזְמִינוֹ וכ׳ if he designated a building for &c.
- 3. to summon, v. next w.
- 1. to meet, to come to hand (providentially); to join one’s self to. Snh. 96ᵃ אותו מלאך שנ׳ לו וכ׳ that angel who was commissioned to accompany Abraham. Ib. נ׳ לו רגלי אחד a footman was joined to him (to meet his challenge). Ab. Zar. 25ᵇ ישראל שנ׳ לו וכ׳ (Ḥull. 91ᵃ שנטפל) an Israelite whom a gentile joins on the road. Shebi. VII, 4 שנִזְדַּמְּנוּ להם וכ׳ who accidentally caught unclean animals; a. fr.
- 2. to make an appointment for meeting one another. Pesik. R. s. 33, v. זִימּוּן.
זְמַן I
- —Part. pass. זְמִין ready, prepared. Targ. Ex. XXXIV, 2 (Y. זַמִין, זַמְיַן, incorr.).—Ib. XIX, 11; 15 זְמִינִין (Y. II מְזַמְנַן, v. infra).—V. זְמִינָא.
- 1. to invite; to appoint; to summon; to prepare. Targ. Mic. III, 5. Targ. Ex. XIX, 10; 14 (ed. Berl. זָמֵין, v. Berl. Targ. O. II, p. 25); a. fr. [Ib. XXV, 22 ואִיזַמָן, ed. Berl. ואֵיזָמֵין, Y. אֵיזְמַן, Ithpe.].—M. Kat. 16ᵃ מְזַמְּנִינָן ליה וכ׳ we summon him &c. Cant. R. to V, 13 ביומוי דזַמְּנִינָן וכ׳ (not דזמניין) in those my days when we invited two parties of scholars (for discussions).—Part. pass. מְזַמַּן (hebraism: מְזוּמָּן). Targ. Ps. LXXII, 17 (h. text ינון).—Pl. constr. מְזַמְּנֵי. Targ. Y. Num. I, 16 (h. text קריאי). [Ib. XXVI, 9 מנמנמי Ar., read מזמני; ed. מערעי).
- 2. to appoint a meal in common, to say grace in common. Ber. 45ᵇ ניהדר ונְזַמֵּן let us go back and agree (retrospectively) to make our meal a common one.
- same. Targ. Y. Gen. XXIV, 7. Targ. I Sam. XVI, 3. Targ. Ex. XIX, 10 ותַזְ׳ some ed. v. supra; a. fr.—Ber. 50ᵇ אַזְמוּן עלייהו they counted them in for common grace, v. preced. Pi.—Snh. 48ᵃ דאַזְמְנֵיה וכ׳ which one designated for &c.—B. Bath. 58ᵃ sq. אי אתי אינש מעלמא ומַזְמִין ליה לדינא Ms. M. (ed. incorr.) if any unknown man will come and sue him; a. fr.
- 1. as preced. Nithpa. Targ. Job XXXIII, 23.—Targ. Y. II, Gen. XIX, 31 למִיזְדַּמְנָא וכ׳ to join us in wedlock (cmp. זְוַג).—Targ. Am. III, 3; a. e.
- 2. to prepare one’s self. Targ. Josh. VII, 13; a. e. [Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXII, 8 יזדמן, read יְזַמֵּן.]—Contr. אִיזַּמֵּן, Ithpe. אִיזְּמִין, v. supra.
זְמָן
- preced.)
- 1. appointed time, term, time. Kidd. I, 7, a. fr. הז׳ גרמא, v. גְּרָמָא.—B. Kam. 113ᵃ קובעים ז׳ וכ׳ we appoint (in the summons to appear before court) a Monday, Thursday and Monday in succession. Gitt. 72ᵃ, a. fr. זְמַנּוֹ של שטר the date of the document.—Taan. 14ᵇ, a. fr. בז׳ הזה in our days (after the dissolution of the Jewish common-wealth). Ib. הכל לפי הז׳ all depends on the season (whether it is advanced or retarded, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 400). Ib. זְמַנָּהּ של רביעה the rainy season; a. v. fr.—Pl. זְמַנִּים. Meg. 2ᵃ ז׳ הרבה various dates (for reading the Megillah).—בִּזְמַן שֶׁ־ in the case of, when, if. Erub. VI, 7 אימתי בז׳ וכ׳ in what case (is this said)? When they carry &c. Ib. 6 ומודים בז׳ וכ׳ they all agree that, if some of them &c.; a. v. fr.—בִּזְמַנּוֹ, בִּזְמַנָהּ &c. in its prescribed, due time; חוּץ לִזְמַנּוֹ &c. out of time, beyond its due time. Zeb. I, 1. Ib. II, 3; a. v. fr.
- 2. festive season (cmp. מִקְרָא, מְאַרְעָא); ‘Z’man’,that section of the benediction on the entrance of a Festival which refers to the return of the festive season (שהחיינו והגיענו לזמן הזה …). Pes. 102ᵇ מדלא אמר ז׳ since he did not mention the benediction of Z’man, v. יקנה"ז. Succ. 48ᵃ שמיני … ז׳ בפני עצמו the eighth day (of Succoth) … is a festive season for itself, requiring the insertion of Z’man; a. fr.—Pl. as above. Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᶜ ג׳ ז׳ בבבל there are three festive seasons (idolatrous fairs) in Babylonia. Tosef. Ber. III, 13 חותם ברוך … והז׳ you must close with ‘Blessed be He … who sanctifies the Sabbath, Israel, and the Seasons.—[Snh. 101ᵃ הקורא … שלא בזמנו he who cites a Biblical verse at a banquet out of its context (perverting its sense for lascivious purposes); Treat. Kallah beg.]
זְמַן II
- Targ. O. Gen. XVIII, 14 (Y. ז׳ חגא, h. text מועד). Ib. II, 23 הדא ז׳ this time (h. text הפעם); a. fr.—Targ. Jer. XVIII, 7; 9 ז׳ … וז׳ at one time … another time.—Ḥull. 105ᵇ ליקבע לי מר ז׳ וכ׳ set me a term, and I shall pay. M. Kat. 16ᵃ דקבעינן ז׳ that (in legal summons) a date is fixed for appearing in court. Ib. ז׳ בתר ז׳ one term after the ofther (in case of failing to appear on the first summons). Ḥag. 4ᵇ אזיל בלא זִימְנֵיה dies before his destined time; a. v. fr.—B. Bath. 73ᵇ, a. fr. ז׳ חדא once upon a time (introducing a story).—Pl. זִמְנִין, זִי׳. Targ. Ex. XXIII, 17; a. e.—Zeb. 94ᵇ, a. fr. ז׳ סגיאין many times.—ז׳—ז׳ at times … at other times. Ber. 20ᵇ, a. fr.—מַשְׁכֵּן זִימְנָא = h. אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד. Targ. Ex. XXVIII, 43; a. fr.—Targ. Ps. LXXIV, 4 זִמְנָיִךְ = משכני זי׳.—Targ. Jer. XLVII, 6 לבית ז׳ to thy destined home (the sheath; h. text הֵרָגְעִי!).—[Targ. Ps. CXLI, 4 בזמן משתיהון Ms (ed. בזמר בית מ׳) at their appointed banquets, v. preced. wds.]
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Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H2166 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/זִמְנִ֤ין | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 6:13 | 1 |
| וְ/זִמְנִין֩ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 6:10 | 1 |
| וְ/זִמְנַיָּ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 2:21 | 1 |
| וְ/זִמְנָ֣/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 7:22 | 1 |
| זְמַ֥ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:12 | 1 |
| זְמָ֣ן | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:16 | 1 |
| זִמְנִ֣ין | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 7:25 | 1 |
| זִמְנָ/א֩ | Particle, Definite Article | Ezra 5:3 | 1 |
| זִמְנָ֔/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:8 | 1 |
| זִמְנָ֞/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 4:36 | 1 |
| זִמְנָ֡/א | Particle, Definite Article | Daniel 3:7 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 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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