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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