עֵת
et · time
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6256 · appears 296 times in the Bible
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Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
et (עֵת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “time”.
Moment, season; "now".
How to say it
et
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 moment at which something happens; also "at that time".
- The right moment or the part of the year when something is due.
- What a person lives through in his time.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Time, moment: the occasion when something happens. It is often used with a preposition, in expressions such as “at that time” or “when”.
- “A time for every matter” Ecclesiastes 3:1Ecclesiastes 3:2
- The hour of the day Genesis 24:11
- “At all times” Psalms 34:1
- A particular time: “for a time like this”; “at that time” Esther 4:14Daniel 12:1
How we translate it
“Time” 245 times, “times” 30, “season” 10, “Now” 4. It is translated “time” almost always, so that Ecclesiastes 3 keeps its repetition (“a time to give birth and a time to die”). It is a different word from מוֹעֵד, “appointed time”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- time ×245
- times ×30
- season ×10
- Now ×4
- When ×3
- day after day ×1
- mealtime ×1
- turn ×1
- whenever ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×10
- Exodus×3
- Leviticus×3
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×18
- Joshua×7
- Judges×10
- Ruth×1
- 1 Samuel×4
- 2 Samuel×3
- 1 Kings×7
- 2 Kings×11
- 1 Chronicles×9
- 2 Chronicles×16
- Ezra×3
- Nehemiah×7
- Esther×5
- Job×10
- Psalms×22
- Proverbs×5
- Ecclesiastes×40
- Song of Songs×1
- Isaiah×11
- Jeremiah×36
- Ezekiel×18
- Daniel×16
- Hosea×3
- Joel×1
- Amos×2
- Micah×3
- Zephaniah×4
- Haggai×3
- Zechariah×2
- Genesis 8:11
And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.
- Genesis 18:10
Then he said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent, and it was behind him.
- Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for YHWH? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
- Genesis 21:22
It happened at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.
- Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.
- Genesis 29:7
He said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”
- Genesis 31:10
It happened at the time when the flock was in heat that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats that were mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled.
- Genesis 38:1
It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Genesis 38:27
When the time of her giving birth came, look, there were twins in her womb.
- Exodus 9:18
Look, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
- Exodus 18:22
Let them judge the people at all times; and every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves; so make it lighter for yourself, and they will bear the load with you.
- Exodus 18:26
They judged the people at all times; the difficult matter they would bring to Moses, but every small matter they would judge themselves.
- Leviticus 15:25
And when a woman has a discharge of her blood for many days not at the time of her menstruation, or when she has a discharge beyond her menstruation, all the days of the discharge of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her menstruation: she is unclean.
- Leviticus 16:2
And YHWH said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother that he is not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, in front of the cover of expiation that is on the ark, so that he does not die; for in the cloud I will appear over the cover of expiation.
- Leviticus 26:4
then I will give your rains in their season, and the land will give its yield, and the tree of the field will give its fruit.
- Numbers 22:4
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the green growth of the field.” And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 23:23
For there is no omen against Jacob, and no divination against Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What El has done!’
- Deuteronomy 1:9
At that time I said to you, “I am not able to carry you by myself.
- Deuteronomy 1:16
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or his resident alien.
- Deuteronomy 1:18
And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
- Deuteronomy 2:34
We captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones; we left no survivor.
- Deuteronomy 3:4
We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a town that we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:8
So at that time we took the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon
- Deuteronomy 3:12
This land we took possession of at that time. From Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
- Deuteronomy 3:18
I commanded you at that time, saying, “YHWH your Elohim has given you this land to take possession of it. Armed, you shall cross over before your brothers, the sons of Israel, all the valiant men.
- Deuteronomy 3:21
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, “Your eyes are the ones that have seen all that YHWH your Elohim has done to these two kings. So YHWH will do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.
- Deuteronomy 3:23
At that time I pleaded with YHWH, saying,
- Deuteronomy 4:14
And YHWH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, for you to carry them out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it.
- Deuteronomy 5:5
I was standing between YHWH and you at that time to declare to you the word of YHWH, for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said:
- Deuteronomy 9:20
And with Aaron YHWH was greatly incensed, to the point of destroying him; and I prayed also for Aaron at that time.
- Deuteronomy 10:1
At that time YHWH said to me, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself an ark of wood.
- Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before YHWH to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
- Deuteronomy 11:14
that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the late rain, and you will gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
- Deuteronomy 28:12
YHWH will open to you his good storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot slips; for near is the day of their calamity, and what is prepared for them hurries on.’
- Joshua 5:2
At that time YHWH said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel again, a second time.”
- Joshua 6:26
Joshua made them swear at that time, saying, “Cursed before YHWH be the man who rises up and builds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates.”
- Joshua 8:29
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua gave command, and they took down his corpse from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which is there to this day.
- Joshua 10:27
And it came about, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua gave command, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden, and they put great stones on the mouth of the cave, which are there until this very day.
- Joshua 11:6
YHWH said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them slain before Israel. Their horses you shall hamstring and their chariots you shall burn with fire.”
And 256 more times.