עַתָּ֫ה
now
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H6258
Strong's Hebrew
ʻattâh
Transliteration
/at-taw'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
435
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now
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Genesis 40 verses
- Genesis 3:22 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 4:11 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
- Genesis 11:6 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 12:19 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
- Genesis 19:9 עַתָּ֕ה adv They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 20:7 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
- Genesis 21:23 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."
- Genesis 22:12 עַתָּ֣ה adv He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
- Genesis 24:49 וְ֠/עַתָּה conj + adv Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
- Genesis 26:22 עַתָּ֞ה adv He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 26:29 עַתָּ֖ה adv that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
- Genesis 27:3 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 27:8 וְ/עַתָּ֥ה conj + adv Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
- Genesis 27:36 עַתָּ֖ה adv He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
- Genesis 27:43 וְ/עַתָּ֥ה conj + adv Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Genesis 29:32 עַתָּ֖ה adv Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
- Genesis 29:34 עַתָּ֤ה adv She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 30:30 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"
- Genesis 31:13 עַתָּ֗ה adv I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
- Genesis 31:16 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
- Genesis 31:28 עַתָּ֖ה adv and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.
- Genesis 31:30 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
- Genesis 31:42 עַתָּ֖ה adv Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
- Genesis 31:44 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you."
- Genesis 32:4 עָֽתָּה adv He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:10 וְ/עַתָּ֥ה conj + adv I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
- Genesis 37:20 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
- Genesis 41:33 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 43:10 עַתָּ֥ה adv for unless we had lingered, surely we would have returned a second time by now."
- Genesis 44:10 עַתָּ֥ה adv He said, "Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless."
- Genesis 44:30 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
- Genesis 44:33 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, a bondservant to my lord; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
- Genesis 45:5 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
- Genesis 45:8 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 46:34 עַ֔תָּה adv that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
- Genesis 47:4 וְ/עַתָּ֛ה conj + adv They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
- Genesis 48:5 וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.
- Genesis 50:5 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
- Genesis 50:17 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv "So you shall tell Joseph, 'Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.' Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
- Genesis 50:21 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Exodus 20 verses
- Exodus 3:9 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
- Exodus 3:10 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
- Exodus 3:18 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
- Exodus 4:12 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak."
- Exodus 5:5 עַתָּ֖ה adv Pharaoh said, "Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens."
- Exodus 5:18 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet shall you deliver the same number of bricks!"
- Exodus 6:1 עַתָּ֣ה adv Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."
- Exodus 9:15 עַתָּה֙ adv For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;
- Exodus 9:18 עָֽתָּה adv Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
- Exodus 9:19 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore command that all of your cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
- Exodus 10:17 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
- Exodus 18:11 עַתָּ֣ה adv Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
- Exodus 18:19 עַתָּ֞ה adv Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
- Exodus 19:5 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Exodus 32:10 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
- Exodus 32:30 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
- Exodus 32:32 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
- Exodus 32:34 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
- Exodus 33:5 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."
- Exodus 33:13 וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
Numbers 15 verses
- Numbers 11:6 וְ/עַתָּ֛ה conj + adv but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look on.
- Numbers 11:23 עַתָּ֥ה adv Yahweh said to Moses, Has Yahweh's hand grown short? now shall you see whether my word shall happen to you or not.
- Numbers 14:17 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,
- Numbers 22:4 עַתָּ֞ה adv Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 22:6 וְ/עַתָּה֩ conj + adv Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
- Numbers 22:11 עַתָּ֗ה adv Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
- Numbers 22:19 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.
- Numbers 22:29 עַתָּ֖ה adv Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
- Numbers 22:33 עַתָּ֛ה adv and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.
- Numbers 22:34 וְ/עַתָּ֛ה conj + adv Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.
- Numbers 22:38 עַתָּ֕ה adv Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
- Numbers 24:11 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.
- Numbers 24:14 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
- Numbers 24:17 עַתָּ֔ה adv I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult.
- Numbers 31:17 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Deuteronomy 9 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:13 עַתָּ֗ה adv Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. We went over the brook Zered.
- Deuteronomy 4:1 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deuteronomy 5:25 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
- Deuteronomy 10:12 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 10:22 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
- Deuteronomy 12:9 עָ֑תָּה adv for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 26:10 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God:
- Deuteronomy 31:19 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 עַתָּ֗ה adv See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
Joshua 17 verses
- Joshua 1:2 וְ/עַתָּה֩ conj + adv Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 2:12 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
- Joshua 3:12 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
- Joshua 5:14 עַתָּ֣ה adv He said, No; but [as] prince of the host of Yahweh am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant?
- Joshua 9:6 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us.
- Joshua 9:11 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.
- Joshua 9:12 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy:
- Joshua 9:19 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
- Joshua 9:23 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.
- Joshua 9:25 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
- Joshua 13:7 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 14:10 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv conj + adv Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
- Joshua 14:11 עָ֑תָּה adv As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
- Joshua 14:12 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore give me this hill-country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.
- Joshua 22:4 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv conj + adv Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Joshua 24:14 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh.
- Joshua 24:23 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Judges 24 verses
- Judges 6:13 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
- Judges 7:3 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
- Judges 8:2 עַתָּ֖ה adv He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
- Judges 8:6 עַתָּ֖ה adv The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
- Judges 8:15 עַתָּה֙ adv He came to the men of Succoth, and said, See Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom you did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?
- Judges 9:16 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
- Judges 9:32 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore, up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:
- Judges 9:38 עַתָּ֖ה adv Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
- Judges 11:7 עַ֔תָּה adv Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Didn't you hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are you come to me now when you are in distress?
- Judges 11:8 עַתָּה֙ adv The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
- Judges 11:13 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
- Judges 11:23 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
- Judges 11:25 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
- Judges 13:4 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing:
- Judges 13:7 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
- Judges 13:12 עַתָּ֖ה adv Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?
- Judges 14:2 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
- Judges 15:18 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
- Judges 16:10 עַתָּה֙ adv Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
- Judges 17:3 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most assuredly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.
- Judges 17:13 עַתָּ֣ה adv Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
- Judges 18:14 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
- Judges 20:9 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;
- Judges 20:13 וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 2:7 עַ֔תָּה adv She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.
- Ruth 3:2 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
- Ruth 3:11 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
- Ruth 3:12 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is a kinsman nearer than I.
1 Samuel 44 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:16 עַתָּ֣ה adv If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
- 1 Samuel 2:30 וְ/עַתָּ֤ה conj + adv Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
- 1 Samuel 6:7 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cattle, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cattle to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
- 1 Samuel 8:5 עַתָּ֗ה adv and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
- 1 Samuel 8:9 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 עַתָּה֙ adv He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
- 1 Samuel 9:12 עַתָּ֗ה adv They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
- 1 Samuel 9:13 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him.
- 1 Samuel 10:19 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 1 Samuel 12:2 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
- 1 Samuel 12:7 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
- 1 Samuel 12:10 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
- 1 Samuel 12:13 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and, behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
- 1 Samuel 12:16 עַתָּה֙ adv Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
- 1 Samuel 13:12 עַ֠תָּה adv therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
- 1 Samuel 13:13 עַתָּ֗ה adv Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
- 1 Samuel 13:14 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
- 1 Samuel 14:30 עַתָּ֛ה adv How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 15:1 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 15:3 עַתָּה֩ adv Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
- 1 Samuel 15:25 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 15:30 עַתָּ֗ה adv Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.
- 1 Samuel 17:29 עָ֑תָּה adv David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
- 1 Samuel 18:22 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.
- 1 Samuel 19:2 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:
- 1 Samuel 20:29 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
- 1 Samuel 20:31 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
- 1 Samuel 21:3 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
- 1 Samuel 23:20 וְ֠/עַתָּה conj + adv Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
- 1 Samuel 24:20 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
- 1 Samuel 24:21 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv adv Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:17 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.
- 1 Samuel 25:26 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv conj + adv Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 25:27 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
- 1 Samuel 26:8 וְ/עַתָּה֩ conj + adv Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.
- 1 Samuel 26:11 וְ֠/עַתָּה conj + adv Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.
- 1 Samuel 26:16 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.
- 1 Samuel 26:19 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.
- 1 Samuel 26:20 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- 1 Samuel 27:1 עַתָּ֛ה adv David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- 1 Samuel 28:22 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.
- 1 Samuel 29:7 וְ/עַתָּ֥ה conj + adv Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 29:10 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
2 Samuel 28 verses
- 2 Samuel 2:6 וְ/עַתָּ֕ה conj + adv Now Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because you have done this thing.
- 2 Samuel 2:7 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be you valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
- 2 Samuel 3:18 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
- 2 Samuel 4:11 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
- 2 Samuel 7:8 וְ֠/עַתָּה conj + adv Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel;
- 2 Samuel 7:25 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have spoken.
- 2 Samuel 7:28 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant:
- 2 Samuel 7:29 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your blessing let the house of your servant be blessed forever.
- 2 Samuel 12:10 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
- 2 Samuel 12:23 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
- 2 Samuel 12:28 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
- 2 Samuel 13:13 וְ/עַתָּה֙ conj + adv I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.
- 2 Samuel 13:20 וְ/עַתָּ֞ה conj + adv Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been with you? but now hold your peace, my sister: he is your brother; don't take this thing to heart. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
- 2 Samuel 13:33 וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv Now therefore don't let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
- 2 Samuel 14:15 וְ֠/עַתָּה conj + adv Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
- 2 Samuel 14:32 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
- 2 Samuel 15:34 וְ/עַתָּ֖ה conj + adv but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
- 2 Samuel 16:11 עַתָּ֜ה adv David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.
- 2 Samuel 17:9 עַתָּ֤ה adv Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will happen, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 17:16 וְ/עַתָּ֡ה conj + adv Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Don't lodge this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 עַתָּ֥ה וְ/עַתָּ֣ה adv conj + adv But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.
- 2 Samuel 19:7 וְ/עַתָּה֙ עָֽתָּה conj + adv adv Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.
- 2 Samuel 19:9 וְ/עַתָּ֛ה conj + adv All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 19:10 וְ/עַתָּ֗ה conj + adv Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
- 2 Samuel 20:6 עַתָּ֗ה adv David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.
- 2 Samuel 24:10 וְ/עַתָּ֣ה conj + adv David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 עַתָּה֙ adv So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
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At its core, עתה (ʻattâh) means “now.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 3:22. With 422 verses in 31 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Sharing its root, it stands alongside עת, עתי and עת קצין. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
henceforth
Modern gloss
now
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H6258 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 →
- 422
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 422 distinct verses.
- 31 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 31 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #112
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 112 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- 1 Samuel 44 verses 10%
- Genesis 40 verses 9%
- 2 Chronicles 29 verses 7%
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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 422 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 241 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 97 verses · 23%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 84 verses · 20%
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†: Now 2×
- American Standard Version†: Herein thou hast done foolishly for from henceforth 1×, Him 1×, Me 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Now 266×, Now therefore 38×, So 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Now 416×, Then 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6258 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 H6258 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6258 across 409† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 36 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 H6258 across 425† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
14 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
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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 14 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.
- a. Gn 12:19 ועתה הנה אשׁתך and now, behold thy wife, 22:12 כי עתה ידעתי now I know (so Ex 18:11; Ju 17:13; 1 K 17:24 [עַתָּה זֶה], ψ 20:7), 26:22, 29; 27:36; 31:13, 28, etc., Ex 5:5 הן רבים עתה עם הארץ; whether in opp. to past time, as Gn 32:11; Jos 14:11 כְּכֹחִי אָז וּכְכֹחִי עָ֑תָּה, Ju 11:8; 1 K 12:4; Is 1:21 ועתה מרצהים, 16:14 Ho 2:9 כִּי טוֹב לִי אָז מֵעָ֑תָּה, 13:2; Jb 30:1 +, or to future, as Nu 24:17 אֶרְאֶנּוּ ולא עתה, Ju 8:6 הֲכַף זֶבַח וצ׳ עַתָּה־בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ, 1 S 2:16 כִּי עַתָּה תִּתֵּן; = after all Nu 22:38; Ju 8:2; = now at last 2 S 24:16; 1 K 19:4; 2 K 19:25; Ho 7:2; Je 4:12; and in the phr. מעתה ועד עולם †Is 9:6; 59:21; Mi 4:7 (v. infr.), ψ 113:2; 115:18; 121:8; 125:2; 131:3. e.g. Genesis 12:19
- b. of the imminent or impending future: Gn 19:9 עַתָּה נָרַע לְךָ מֵהֶם, 29:32 כי עתה יאהבני אישׁי, v 34 Ex 6:1 עתה תראה, Nu 11:23; 22:4; 2 S 20:6; Is 33:10 (ψ 12:6), 43:19; 49:19; Am 6:7 לכן עתה יִגְלוּ, Is 49:19; Mi 7:4, 10; Dn 10:20; and especially ἀσυνδέτως in Hos, introducing a punishment, Ho 4:16 עתה יִרְעֵם י׳ וגו׳ 5:7; 8:8, 13 (Je 14:10), 10:2. e.g. Genesis 19:9
- c. of a time ideally present (= then, from our point of view): Is 29:22 לא עתה יבושׁ יעקב, v b Ho 10:3; Mi 4:9, 10, 11, 14; 5:3. e.g. Isaiah 29:22
- d. describing a present state = as things are: 1 S 8:5 thou art old, etc., עתה שִׂימָה לנו מלך, 9:6; 13:12; 14:30; 25:7b; 27:1 now I shall be swept away one day, etc., 2 K 18:20, 25; Jb 6:21; 14:16; 16:7. e.g. 1 Samuel 8:5
- e. with an Imv., as an encouragement, implying that the time has come for the exhortation or advice to be followed, Gn 31:13 עתה קום צא, Ex 18:19 עתה שְׁמַע בקולי, Nu 22:11 Dt 2:13 Is 30:8. e.g. Genesis 31:13
- 2. Phrases:
- a. עַתָּה זֶה (זֶה 4 h) †1 K 17:24 2 K 5:22. e.g. 1 Kings 17:24
- b. ועתה and, now, or now, therefore (וְ 4), drawing a conclusion, especially (cf. 1 e) a practical one, from what has been stated: Gn 3:22 and now (since man has once been disobedinet), lest he put forth his hand, etc., 20:7; 21:23 וְעַתָּה הִשָּֽׁבְעָה לִי הֵ֫נָּה, 27:3, 8 ועתה בני שְׁמַע בקולי, 30:30; 31:16, 44; 37:20 + often, Is 5:3, 5; 36:8 ψ 2:10; Gn 11:6 ועתה לֹא־יִבָּצֵר מֵהֶם וגו׳, 31:30; 45:8; 2 S 19:11 ψ 39:8 ועתה מַה־קִּוִּיתִי אֲדֹנָי, Is 52:5. e.g. Genesis 3:22
- c. וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה stating the ground on which some conclusion or action is to be based, Ex 3:9 Jo 14:10(×2) 1 S 12:2; 24:21; 1 K 1:18; Je 40:4 (with ועתה usually repeated after the הנה-clause). e.g. Exodus 3:9
- d. גם עתה Gn 44:10; 1 S 12:16; 1 K 14:14; Jo 2:12; Jb 16:19. e.g. Genesis 44:10
- e. מֵעַתָּה from now, henceforth, Je 3:4; Is 48:6; Dn 10:17 (according to some, here = from just now), 2 Ch 16:9; מעתה ועד עולם, v. supr. 1 a end. e.g. Jeremiah 3:4
- f. עַד־עַתָּה until now, Gn 32:5 וָאֵחַר עד־ע׳, Dt 12:9 לא באתם עד ע׳ אל הנחלה (opp. to the fut.), 2 K 13:23; especially after clause with מִן, 46:34 מִנְּעוּרֵינוּ וְעַד־ע׳ (2 S 19:8 Ez 4:14), Ex 9:18; 2 K 8:6; Ru 2:7. e.g. Genesis 32:5
- g. כִּי עַתָּה for in this case, in our idiom, for then (עתה pointing to a condition assumed as a possible contingency; cf. Dr§ 141, 142); †(a) Ex 9:15 כי עתה שׁלחתי וגו׳ for then (if the intention expressed in v 14 had not existed) I should have put forth my hand, etc., Nu 22:29 כי עתה הֲרַגְתִּיךְ, 1 S 13:13; Jb 3:13; sq. impf. Jb 6:3 for then (if it were weighed, v 2) it would be heavier, etc., 13:19 for then would I be silent and die; (b) after a protasis, surely then Gn 31:42 + (see כִּי 1 d b, p. 472).— e.g. Exodus 9:15
- Read כְּמוֹ עַתָּ (𝔊 𝔙) as now, for כְּמוֹ עֵת Ez 16:57, עַתָּ נִשְׁבַּרְתְּ (𝔊 𝔖 𝔙) now art thou broken! for עֵת נִשְׁבֶּרֶת Ez 27:34, and prob. עַתָּ בָּא (Hi We Kö Now, cf. 𝔊 𝔖) for עֶת־בֹּא Hg 1:2; also עַתָּה for אַתָּה 1 K 1:20, and אַתָּה for עַתָּה v 18b; 2 S 18:3. e.g. Ezekiel 16:57
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
(also Ez 23:43 ψ 74:6 עת Kt, Qr עַתָּה), עָ֑֫תָּה Gn 32:5 +, adv. of time, now (proposes acc. of [’int], עֵת (Köii. 260), at the time, in partic. of the present time, i.e. now; cf. Germ. zur Zeit, Arabic اَلْآنَ at the time, i.e. now);—now:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עת (ʻêth) (H6256) — 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.
עַתָּה
- v. עֵת) now, this time. Ber. 46ᵃ מע׳ ועד עולם from now and forever. Tanḥ. Mishp. 18 וע׳ באתי and now I have come again; a. fr. [In Talm. mostly עכשיו.]—As a dialectic term: מֵעַ׳ from now, i.e. as a consequence; if this were so, then.—Y. Ab. Zar. I, 39ᵈ bot. מע׳ חטין אל ימכור וכ׳ according to this he ought not to sell him wheat &c.; a. fr.—Mostly: אֶלָּא מע׳. Succ. 2ᵃ א׳ מ׳ העושה סוכתו וכ׳ but according to this, if a man put up his Succah in Ashteroth Karnayim (v. עַשְׁתָּרוֹת), would you also say that it is no legitimate Succah? B. Kam. 17ᵇ; a. fr.—אֱמוֹר מע׳ say from now, i.e. learn from this, therefore. Tosef. Kel. B. Mets. V, 2. Sifré Deut. 334; a. fr.
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 45 distinct written forms H6258 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/עַתָּ֗ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 10:22 | 80 |
| וְ/עַתָּה֙ | Adverb | Deuteronomy 5:25 | 39 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֣ה | Adverb | Daniel 9:15 | 36 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֕ה | Adverb | Daniel 11:2 | 26 |
| עַתָּה֙ | Adverb | Exodus 9:15 | 26 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֖ה | Adverb | Amos 7:16 | 21 |
| עַתָּ֖ה | Adverb | Daniel 10:11 | 19 |
| עַתָּ֣ה | Adverb | Exodus 6:1 | 19 |
| עַתָּ֗ה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 2:13 | 18 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֡ה | Adverb | Exodus 33:13 | 15 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֛ה | Adverb | Ezra 9:10 | 12 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֞ה | Adverb | Exodus 32:34 | 11 |
| וְ֠/עַתָּה | Adverb | Ezra 9:12 | 10 |
| עַתָּ֥ה | Adverb | Amos 6:7 | 10 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֥ה | Adverb | Genesis 27:8 | 8 |
| עַתָּ֛ה | Adverb | Ezekiel 23:43 | 8 |
| עַתָּ֕ה | Adverb | Genesis 19:9 | 7 |
| עַ֭תָּה | Adverb | Job 3:13 | 6 |
| עַתָּ֤ה | Adverb | Genesis 29:34 | 6 |
| עָֽתָּה | Adverb | Exodus 9:18 | 6 |
| עַ֔תָּה | Adverb | Ezekiel 4:14 | 5 |
| עַתָּ֞ה | Adverb | Exodus 18:19 | 5 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֤ה | Adverb | 1 Samuel 2:30 | 4 |
| וְ֭/עַתָּה | Adverb | Job 6:28 | 4 |
| וְ/עַתָּה֩ | Adverb | 1 Samuel 26:8 | 3 |
| מֵ/עַ֔תָּה | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 16:9 | 3 |
| מֵֽ֝/עַתָּ֗ה | Adverb | Psalms 113:2 | 3 |
| עָ֑תָּה | Adverb | Deuteronomy 12:9 | 3 |
| וְ֝/עַתָּ֗ה | Adverb | Job 42:5 | 2 |
| מֵ/עַתָּ֖ה | Adverb | Isaiah 59:21 | 2 |
| עַתָּ֡ה | Adverb | 2 Kings 5:22 | 2 |
| עַתָּ֨ה | Adverb | 2 Chronicles 29:31 | 2 |
| עַתָּה֩ | Adverb | 1 Samuel 15:3 | 2 |
| ו/עת | Adverb | Psalms 74:6 | 1 |
| וְ/עַתָּ֨ה | Adverb | Psalms 27:6 | 1 |
| מֵ/עַ֨תָּה֙ | Adverb | Daniel 10:17 | 1 |
| מֵ/עַתָּה֙ | Adverb | Isaiah 9:7 | 1 |
| מֵ/עָֽתָּה | Adverb | Hosea 2:7 | 1 |
| מֵ֝/עַתָּ֗ה | Adverb | Psalms 125:2 | 1 |
| מֵֽ/עַתָּ֥ה | Adverb | Psalms 115:18 | 1 |
| עַ֠תָּה | Adverb | 1 Samuel 13:12 | 1 |
| עַתָּ֔ה | Adverb | Numbers 24:17 | 1 |
| עַתָּ֜ה | Adverb | 2 Samuel 16:11 | 1 |
| עַתָּה֮ | Adverb | 2 Kings 4:26 | 1 |
| עת | Adverb | Ezekiel 23:43 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 410 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 422 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 3:22
- Exodus 3:9
- Numbers 11:6
- Deuteronomy 2:13
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 6:13
- Ruth 2:7
- 1 Samuel 2:16
- 2 Samuel 2:6
- 1 Kings 1:12
- 2 Kings 1:14
- 1 Chronicles 17:7
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.
