אֶמֶשׁ
emesh · last night
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H570 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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emesh (אֶמֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “last night”.
Yesterday.
How to say it
e·mesh
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- The night just past; the day before.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- last night ×4
- yesterday ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 19:34
The next day the older said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”
- Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to do you harm; but the Elohim of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to speak with Jacob either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:42
Had not the Elohim of my father, the Elohim of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. Elohim has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and he rebuked you last night.”
- 2 Kings 9:26
‘Surely the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons I saw yesterday, declares YHWH, and I will repay you in this plot, declares YHWH.’ So now pick him up and throw him into the plot, according to the word of YHWH.”
- Job 30:3
Through want and famine they are barren; they gnaw the dry land, last night desolation and ruin.