זְמָן
zeman · set time
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2165 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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zeman (זְמָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “set time”.
An appointed time, a set time.
How to say it
ze·man
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
- A time marked out beforehand for something to happen.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- appointed time ×2
- appointed times ×1
- set time ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Nehemiah 2:6
And the king said to me, with the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” And it seemed good before the king, and he sent me, and I gave him a set time.
- Esther 9:27
the Jews established and accepted for themselves and for their offspring and for all who joined them, so that it would not pass away, that they would observe these two days according to their writing and according to their appointed time, every year;
- Esther 9:31
to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had established for them, and as they had established for themselves and for their offspring: the matters of the fasts and of their crying out.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is an appointed time, and a time for every matter under the heavens: