אָז
then
‘then’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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 H227 appears in the Book of Psalms — 13 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.
Psalms
- Psalms 2:5 אָ֤ז adv Then he will speak to them in his anger, And terrify them in his wrath:
- Psalms 19:13 אָ֣ז adv Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright, I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
- Psalms 40:7 אָ֣ז adv Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
- Psalms 51:19 אָ֤ז אָ֤ז adv adv Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
- Psalms 56:9 אָ֥֨ז adv Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
- Psalms 69:4 אָ֣ז adv Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
- Psalms 76:7 מֵ/אָ֥ז prep + adv You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
- Psalms 89:19 אָ֤ז adv Then you spoke in vision to your saints, And said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
- Psalms 93:2 מֵ/אָ֑ז prep + adv Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.
- Psalms 96:12 אָ֥ז adv Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
- Psalms 119:6 אָ֥ז adv Then I wouldn't be disappointed, When I consider all of your commandments.
- Psalms 119:92 אָ֝֗ז adv Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
- Psalms 126:2 אָ֤ז אָ֭ז adv adv Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
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.
אז (ʼâz) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “then.” It first appears in Genesis 4:26. It turns up in 133 verses across 27 books, a common footprint. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. From the same root come אזי. 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 H227 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 →
- 133
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 133 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #318
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 318 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 133 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
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 133 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 71 verses · 53%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 43 verses · 32%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 19 verses · 14%
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 5×, Since 2×, Yet 2×
- American Standard Version: Then 7×, Old 2×, Time past 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Then 63×, Time 23×, Long ago 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Then 122×, Since 4×, And 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H227 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 H227 across 22 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H227 across 119 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 21 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H227 across 138 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. strictly temporal:
- a. of past time:—without a verb Gn 12:6; 13:7 Jos 14:11 2 S 23:14; with a pf. Gn 4:26 Ex 4:26 Jos 10:33 Ju 8:3; 13:21 Je 22:15 אָז טוֹב לוֹ then was it well to him (cf. v 16 Ho 2:9); more usually (especially when = thereupon) with an impf. (v. Dr§ 27) Ex 15:1 Nu 21:17 Jos 8:30: 10:12; 22:1 1 K 3:16; 8:1; 9:11 (v. DrIntr. 192) al. e.g. Genesis 12:6
- b. of fut. time (usually where some emph. is intended), with impf. Is 35:5, 6; 60:5 Mi 3:4, rather differently Lv 26:41 1 S 20:12; rarely with pf. 2 S 5:24b (will have gone forth) Is 33:23: with an accompanying logical force, implying the fulfilment of a condition, then = if or when this has been done (with the impf.) Gn 24:41 Ex 12:44, 48 Dt 29:19 Jos 1:8 1 S 6:3 Is 58:8, 9 Je 11:15 Hi Ke ψ 19:14; 51:21 Pr 3:23 Jb 11:15; 13:20; 22:26. e.g. Isaiah 35:5
- c. in poetry אז is sometimes used to throw emphasis on a particular feature of the description Gn 49:4 Ex 15:15 Ju 5:8, 11, 13, 19, 22 Is 33:23; 41:1 Hb 1:11 ψ 2:5; 96:12. e.g. Genesis 49:4
- d. it points back with emphasis to an inf. with בּ 2 S 5:24a ψ 126:2(×2) Jb 28:27; 33:16; to בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא (anomalously) 1 Ch 16:7. e.g. 2 Samuel 5:24
- 2. expressing logical sequence strictly: in the apod.:—after אם (rare) for sake of special emphasis Is 58:14 Pr 2:5 Jb 9:31; = in that case, after לוּ or לוּלֵא 2 S 2:27 hadst thou not spoken, כִּי אָז surely then had the people, etc. 19:7 ψ 119:92; after אחלי 2 K 5:3 ψ 119:6; after a suppressed protasis 2 K 13:19 Jb 3:13 יָשַׁנְתִּי יָנוּחַ לִי I had slept, then were there rest for me; Jos 22:31 (strangely) = now, as things are; Ec 2:15 = that being so. (122 times besides מאז and מן־אז. Seldom used except where some special emphasis is desired. ‘Then’ of AV RV more commonly represents וְ, especially in the apodosis.) e.g. Isaiah 58:14
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adv. (cf. إِذًا, ࠀࠃ: also Biblical Aramaic אֱדַיִן, proposes a subst. = time: see מֵאָז) at that time, then, whether expressing duration, or inception (= thereupon).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a demonstrative adv
Forms in the corpus
The 30 distinct written forms H227 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָ֣ז | Adverb | Deuteronomy 4:41 | 41 |
| אָ֤ז | Adverb | Exodus 15:15 | 16 |
| אָ֖ז | Adverb | Exodus 12:44 | 14 |
| אָ֚ז | Adverb | Exodus 4:26 | 9 |
| אָ֥ז | Adverb | Genesis 12:6 | 9 |
| אָ֛ז | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 24:17 | 8 |
| אָ֗ז | Adverb | 2 Samuel 5:24 | 6 |
| אָז֩ | Adverb | 1 Kings 11:7 | 4 |
| אָ֭ז | Adverb | Job 9:31 | 3 |
| מֵ/אָ֔ז | Adverb | 2 Samuel 15:34 | 3 |
| מֵ/אָ֣ז | Adverb | Isaiah 14:8 | 3 |
| אָ֠ז | Adverb | Deuteronomy 29:20 | 2 |
| אָ֡ז | Adverb | 1 Kings 9:11 | 2 |
| אָ֧ז | Adverb | 1 Kings 16:21 | 2 |
| מֵ/אָ֖ז | Adverb | Exodus 9:24 | 2 |
| מֵ/אָ֥ז | Adverb | Exodus 4:10 | 2 |
| מֵ/אָֽז | Adverb | Isaiah 16:13 | 2 |
| אָ֝֗ז | Adverb | Psalms 119:92 | 1 |
| אָ֥֨ז | Adverb | Psalms 56:9 | 1 |
| אָז֙ | Adverb | 1 Samuel 20:12 | 1 |
| וְ/אָ֖ז | Adverb | Leviticus 26:41 | 1 |
| וְ/אָ֗ז | Adverb | Jeremiah 32:2 | 1 |
| וְ/אָ֥ז | Adverb | Joshua 1:8 | 1 |
| וְ/אָז֙ | Adverb | Exodus 12:48 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ/אָ֞ז | Adverb | Exodus 5:23 | 1 |
| מֵ/אָ֑ז | Adverb | Psalms 93:2 | 1 |
| מֵ/אָ֛ז | Adverb | Isaiah 44:8 | 1 |
| מֵ/אָ֤ז | Adverb | Ruth 2:7 | 1 |
| מֵ/אָז֩ | Adverb | Genesis 39:5 | 1 |
| מֵ֠/אָז | Adverb | Joshua 14:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H227, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 125 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 133 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:26
- Exodus 4:10
- Leviticus 26:34
- Numbers 21:17
- Deuteronomy 4:41
- Joshua 1:8
- Judges 5:8
- Ruth 2:7
- 1 Samuel 6:3
- 2 Samuel 2:27
- 1 Kings 3:16
- 2 Kings 5:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
