עֵת
time
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 166 times (56%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 111 times (38%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute 16 times (5%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct 2 times (1%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 296 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–258 of 258 distinct verses where H6256 appears, across 33 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.
Jeremiah 34 verses
- Jeremiah 20:16 בְּ/עֵ֥ת prep + n c bs cs Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
- Jeremiah 27:7 עֵ֤ת n c bs cs All the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondservant.
- Jeremiah 30:7 וְ/עֵֽת conj + n c bs cs Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
- Jeremiah 31:1 בָּ/עֵ֤ת prep det + n c bs At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
- Jeremiah 33:15 וּ/בָ/עֵ֣ת conj + prep det + n c bs In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 33:20 בְּ/עִתָּֽ/ם prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- Jeremiah 46:21 עֵ֥ת n c bs cs Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they didn't stand: for the day of their calamity is come on them, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 49:8 עֵ֥ת n c bs Flee you, turn back, dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him, the time that I shall visit him.
- Jeremiah 50:4 וּ/בָ/עֵ֤ת conj + prep det + n c bs In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
- Jeremiah 50:16 בְּ/עֵ֣ת prep + n c bs cs Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:20 וּ/בָ/עֵ֨ת conj + prep det + n c bs In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
- Jeremiah 50:27 עֵ֥ת n c bs cs Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
- Jeremiah 50:31 עֵ֥ת n c bs Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
- Jeremiah 51:6 עֵ֨ת n c bs cs Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
- Jeremiah 51:18 בְּ/עֵ֥ת prep + n c bs cs They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 51:33 עֵ֣ת עֵֽת n c bs n c bs cs For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
Ezekiel 14 verses
- Ezekiel 4:10 מֵ/עֵ֥ת עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs n c bs Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
- Ezekiel 4:11 מֵ/עֵ֥ת עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs n c bs You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
- Ezekiel 7:7 הָ/עֵ֗ת ptcl def.art + n c bs Your doom is come to you, inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near, [a day of] tumult, and not [of] joyful shouting, on the mountains.
- Ezekiel 7:12 הָ/עֵת֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
- Ezekiel 12:27 וּ/לְ/עִתִּ֥ים conj + prep + n c bp Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
- Ezekiel 16:8 עִתֵּ/ךְ֙ עֵ֣ת n c bs cs + sfx pers 2fs n c bs cs Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
- Ezekiel 16:57 עֵ֚ת n c bs cs before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.
- Ezekiel 21:25 בְּ/עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs cs You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
- Ezekiel 21:29 בְּ/עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs cs while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
- Ezekiel 22:3 עִתָּ֑/הּ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
- Ezekiel 27:34 עֵ֛ת n c bs cs In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
- Ezekiel 30:3 עֵ֥ת n c bs cs For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
- Ezekiel 34:26 בְּ/עִתּ֔/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- Ezekiel 35:5 בְּ/עֵ֣ת בְּ/עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs cs prep + n c bs cs Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Daniel 13 verses
- Daniel 8:17 לְ/עֶת prep + n c bs cs So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
- Daniel 9:21 כְּ/עֵ֖ת prep + n c bs cs yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
- Daniel 9:25 הָ/עִתִּֽים ptcl def.art + n c bp Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
- Daniel 11:6 בָּ/עִתִּֽים prep det + n c bp At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
- Daniel 11:13 הָֽ/עִתִּ֤ים ptcl def.art + n c bp The king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, [even of] years, with a great army and with much substance.
- Daniel 11:14 וּ/בָ/עִתִּ֣ים conj + prep det + n c bp In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
- Daniel 11:24 עֵֽת n c bs In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.
- Daniel 11:35 עֵ֣ת n c bs cs Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
- Daniel 11:40 וּ/בְ/עֵ֣ת conj + prep + n c bs cs At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
- Daniel 12:1 וּ/בָ/עֵ֣ת עֵ֣ת הָ/עֵ֣ת וּ/בָ/עֵ֤ת conj + prep det + n c bs n c bs cs ptcl def.art + n c bs conj + prep det + n c bs "At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.
- Daniel 12:4 עֵ֣ת n c bs cs But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
- Daniel 12:9 עֵ֥ת n c bs cs He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
- Daniel 12:11 וּ/מֵ/עֵת֙ conj + prep + n c bs From the time that the continual [burnt offering] shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 2:9 בְּ/עִתּ֔/וֹ prep + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, And my new wine in its season, And will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
- Hosea 10:12 וְ/עֵת֙ conj + n c bs Sow to yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; For it is time to seek Yahweh, Until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
- Hosea 13:13 עֵ֥ת n c bs The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; For when it is time, he doesn't come to the opening of the womb.
Joel 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Micah 3 verses
- Micah 2:3 עֵ֥ת n c bs Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, From which you will not remove your necks, Neither will you walk haughtily; For it is an evil time.
- Micah 3:4 בָּ/עֵ֣ת prep det + n c bs Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."
- Micah 5:3 עֵ֥ת n c bs Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
Zephaniah 3 verses
- Zephaniah 1:12 בָּ/עֵ֣ת prep det + n c bs It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."
- Zephaniah 3:19 בָּ/עֵ֣ת prep det + n c bs Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:20 בָּ/עֵ֤ת וּ/בָ/עֵ֖ת prep det + n c bs conj + prep det + n c bs At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.
Haggai 2 verses
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 10:1 בְּ/עֵ֣ת prep + n c bs cs Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
- Zechariah 14:7 לְ/עֵֽת prep + n c bs cs It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.
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.
עת — transliterated ʻêth — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “time.” It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. With 258 verses in 33 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Genesis 8:11. From the same root come עד, עד and עד. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6256 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 →
- 258
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 258 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #167
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 167 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 258 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 34 verses 13%
- Psalms 22 verses 9%
- Deuteronomy 18 verses 7%
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 258 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 116 verses · 45%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 107 verses · 41%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 35 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Time 155×, Times 15×, About this time 7×
- American Standard Version†: Time 142×, Times 14×, Season 9×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Time 169×, Times 22×, Season 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Time 164×, At 71×, Time of 57×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6256 across 294† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 55 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 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6256 across 293† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 63 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 H6256 across 269† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 44 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 26 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6256 across 371† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-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 11 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.
עת I
- 1. time of an event, etc.:
- a. usually (213 times) c. prep.: c. בְּ (142 times), especially בָּע׳ הַהִוא Gn 21:22 (E) in that time, 38:1 (J), Nu 22:4 (E), Dt 1:9 + 14 times Dt; בָּע׳ הַהִיא Jos 5:2; Am 5:13; Dn 12:1(×2) + (69 times, not in P); בָּע׳ הַזֹּאת Est 4:14, בָּעִתִּים הָהֵם 2 Ch 15:5; Dn 11:14; בְּכָל־עֵת at all times Ex 18:22, 26 (E), Lv 16:2 (P) ψ 34:2 +; = continually Pr 8:30, בְּכָל־עֵת אֲשֶׁר Est 5:13 as long as I see Mordecai; c. לְ (31 times; cf. ל 6, p. 516 supr.), 2 S 11:1 + at the time, but Ez 12:27 for distant times, cf. לְעֵת כָּזֹאת Est 4:14, etc.; c. כְּ (21 times; cf. ב 1 a, p. 453 supr.), †מָחָר כָּע׳ הַזֹּאת Jos 11:6 (JE) tomorrow about this time, usually כָּע׳ מָחָר (KöSynt. 401 o) Ex 9:18 (J), 1 S 9:16 (cf. Dr), 20:12; 1 K 19:2; 20:6; 2 K 7:1, 18; 10:6 †; כָּעֵת חַיָּה v. p. 312; †כָּעֵת הָרִאשׁוֹן Is 8:23 at the former time; כָּעֵת alone Nu 23:23 (JE) at this time = now (prob., cf. Di), Ju 13:23; 21:22, etc.; c. מִן (8 times;), מִן הָעֵת הַהִא Ne 13:21, etc.; c. עַד (12 times), עַד־הָע׳ הַהִיא Ne 6:1 up to that time, מֵעֵת עַד־עֵת Ez 4:10, 11, etc. (5 times Dn); c. אֶל־, מֵעֵת אֶל־עֵת 1 Ch 9:25. e.g. Genesis 21:22
- b. often cstr. defined by n.foll.: בְּעֵת צָהֳרָ֑יִם Je 20:16, לְעֵת (הָ)עֶרֶב 2 S 11:12; Gn 8:11; 24:11 (both J), Is 17:14; Zc 14:7, עַד־עֵת הָעָ֑רֶב Jos 8:29 (JE), כְּעֵת מִנְחַת עֶרֶב Dn 9:21, redundantly לְעֶת־יוֹם בְּיוֹם 1 Ch 12:23, ע׳ (ה)קָצִיר Je 50:16; 51:33, ע׳ הַזָּמִיר Ct 2:12, ע׳ זִקְנָה 1 K 11:4; 15:23 ψ 71:9, בְּע׳ אַפְּךָ Je 18:23 = לְע׳ פָּנֶיךָ ψ 21:10 (of anger), לְעִתּוֹת בַּצָּרָה 9:10; 10:1 at times of destitution (v. בַּצָּרָה), etc. e.g. Jeremiah 20:16
- c. sq.inf. לְע׳ בּוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ Jos 10:27 (JE), 2 Ch 18:34, בְּע׳ קָרְאָם Je 11:14a (read בְּעֵת also v b, Gie), etc. e.g. Joshua 10:27
- d. sq. cl. c. vb. fin. (poet. or late) Dt 32:35; Jb 6:17; 2 Ch 20:22; 24:11; 29:27 + (cf. 2 c). e.g. Deuteronomy 32:35
- 2.
- a. = usual time: לְע׳ צֵאת 2 S 11:1 at the time of kings’ going forth = 1 Ch 20:1; בְּעֵת יַחֵם Gn 31:10; עֵת לֶדֶת Jb 39:1, 2. e.g. 2 Samuel 11:1
- b. proper, suitable time: rain בְּעִתּוֹ Dt 11:14; Je 5:24 +, cf. Lv 26:4 (H), also ψ 1:3; 104:27; 145:15; Pr 15:23; Is 60:22; Ec 3:11; עֵת מִלְחָמָה v 8, ע׳ שָׁלוֹם v 8; sq.inf. Ho 10:12, הַעֵת לָקַחַת 2 K 5:26 is it a time to take money? Hg 1:4, לְהִבָּנוֹת עֶת־בֵּית י׳ v 2 (v a read עַתָּ בָּא Hi We Now al.); עֵת לַעֲשׂוֹת ψ 119:126, cf. Ec 3:2–8 (26 times); abs. כִּי עֵת Ho 13:13 (Hi We al.; GuKau gives עַתָּ; > Now כָּעֵת); abs. c. neg. Jb 22:16; Ec 7:17; hence (late) יוֹדְעֵי בִינָה לָעִתִּים 1 Ch 12:32, יֹדְעֵי הָעִתִּים Est 1:13 i.e. astrologers, etc. e.g. Deuteronomy 11:14
- c. appointed time, בְּעֵת תֵּת וגו׳ 1 S 18:19 at the appointed time of giving, Ez 7:7, 12 Is 13:22, ע׳ פְּקֻדָּתָם Je 8:12; 10:15 = 51:18, 46:21; 50:27 cf. (c.vb. fin.) 6:15; 49:8; 50:31, ע׳ אַרְצוֹ Je 27:7, ע׳ גּוֹיִם Ez 30:3, מְזֻמָּנִים לְעִתִּים Ezr 10:14 Ne 10:35 cf. 13:31; עַד־ע׳ מוֹעֵד 2 S 24:15, ψ 102:14 (‖ מוֹעֵד), etc.; cf. עֵת וּמִשְׁפָּט Ec 8:5, 6 (for time of judgment), עִתּוֹ 9:12; especially לְעֵת קֵץ Dn 8:7 cf. 11:35, 40; 12:4, 9, בְּע׳ עֲוֹן קֵץ Ez 21:30, 34 cf. 35:5; לְקֵץ הָעִתּים Dn 11:13. e.g. 1 Samuel 18:19
- d. as uncertain עֵת וָפֶגַע Ec 9:11. e.g. Ecclesiastes 9:11
- 3. = experiences, fortunes, pl. אֱמוּנַת עִתֶּיךָ Is 33:6, ψ 31:16; הָעִתִּים אֲשֶׁר עָֽבְרוּ עָלָיו 1 Ch 29:30. e.g. Isaiah 33:6
- 4. occurrence, occasion (= פַּעַם), רַבּוֹת עִתִּים Ne 9:28 great numbers of times (= very often). e.g. Nehemiah 9:28
עת II [עֵת] n.pr.loc. on border of Zebulun, only c. ה loc., עִתָּה ק׳ Jos 19
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Word origin
I. n.f. Am 5:13 and (seldom, mostly late) m. Ezr 10:14 time (NH id.; Ph. עת; Assyrian inu, ittu, time; Talm עַנְתָּא; clearly from a √ ענה, but doubtful whether I. ע׳);—abs. ע׳ Ho 10:12 +, cstr. ע׳ Gn 24:12 +, עֶת־ Lv 15:25 + 5 times; sf. עִתּוֹ Ho 2:11 +, etc.; pl., late, עִתִּים 1 Ch 12:32 +, sf. עִתֶּיךָ Is 33:6; עִתּוֹת ψ 9:10; 10:1, sf. עִתֹּתָ֑י 31:16;—ע׳ only twice P, once H;—
I. [עֵת] n.pr.loc. on border of Zebulun, only c. ה loc., עִתָּה ק׳ Jos 19:13; site unknown.
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Derived from עד (ʻad) (H5703) — perpetuity.
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.
עֵת
- , v. עוּד; or of ענת, v. עוֹנָה I) [duration, turn,]
- 1. ʿEth, the twenty-fourth part of an ʿonah. Tosef. Ber. I, 1; a. e., v. עוֹנָה I.
- 2. time. Pes. 109ᵃ; מימיו לא אמר הגיע עת לעמוד וכ׳ never in his life did he (R. ʿAḳiba) say, it is time to rise from (leave) the house of study, except &c.; Succ. 28ᵃ. Ber. 8ᵃ (ref. to Ps. LXIX, 14) אימתי עת רצון בשעה וכ׳ when is the time of favor? When the congregation is at prayer. Taan. 24ᵇ שמע מינה עת רצון היא I learn from this (dream) that this is an auspicious time for prayer. Yeb. 72ᵃ עת רצון מילתא היא there is something in the idea of a time of favor for prayer; a. fr.—מֵעֵת לָעֵת (abbrev. מעל"ע) the time of twenty-four astronomical hours. Nidd. I, 1 מעל"ע ממעטת עליד מפקידה לפקידה וכ׳ the term of twenty-four hours (of retrospective uncleanness) reduces the term of the interval from one examination to the other &c., i.e. we go by the shorter term whichever it may be. Ḥull. 51ᵇ; Zeb. 74ᵇ צריכה מעל"ע requires the intervening of twenty-four hours (before it may be slaughtered); a. fr.—Pl. עִתִּים, עִתּוֹת, עִי׳. R. Hash. 28ᵃ ע׳ חלים ע׳ שוטה (Tosef. Ter. I, 3 פעמים), v. חָלַם I. Tam. I, 2 לא כל הע׳ שוות the time (for the appearance of the superintendent) was not always the same. Y. Ber. IX, end, 14ᵈ (ref. to Ps. CXIX, 126) העושה תורתו ע׳ … מיפר ברית he who makes the study of the Law a matter of time, destroys the covenant. Sabb. 31ᵃ בשעה … נשאת ונתת באמונה קבעת ע׳ לתורה when man is brought up for judgment, he is asked, hast thou been dealing with integrity? hast thou had regular times for the study of the Law? Snh. 65ᵇ ע׳ ושעות, v. עוּן; a. e.—לְעִיתּוֹתֵי עֶרֶב at the evening appointments (when labor is stopped, the work reviewed, wages paid &c.), in gen. towards evening. Tosef. Ab. Zar. VII (VIII), 10; Bab. Ber. 65ᵃ. Y. Ber. II, 5ᶜ top. Y. Succ. IV, beg. 54ᵇ. Y. Yeb. XVI, 15ᵈ top לציצותי, Var. לציתותי (read: לציתותי ערב); a. e. e.g. Psalms 69:14
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Forms in the corpus
The 108 distinct written forms H6256 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 48 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 237 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 258 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 8:11
- Exodus 9:18
- Leviticus 15:25
- Numbers 22:4
- Deuteronomy 1:9
- Joshua 5:2
- Judges 3:29
- Ruth 2:14
- 1 Samuel 4:20
- 2 Samuel 11:1
- 1 Kings 8:65
- 2 Kings 4:16
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.
