Strong’s H6256 · Hebrew

עֵת
ʻêth
ayth

Definition

time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.

Etymology

from H5703 (עַד);

Where the KJV renders it

  • after
  • (al-) ways
  • certain
  • continually
  • evening
  • long
  • (due) season
  • so (long) as
  • (even-
  • evening-
  • noon-) tide
  • (meal-)
  • what) time
  • when

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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