efo · then

What it means

efo (אֵפוֹ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “then”.

So, now.

How to say it

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

1. A word that draws a consequence or strengthens a question.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• then ×12
• now ×3

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×5
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled with a great trembling, exceedingly, and said, “Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of all before you came, and I blessed him? Indeed, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Look, I have made him master over you, and all his brothers I have given to him as servants, and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. So for you, then, what can I do, my son?”

• Genesis 43:11

  Israel their father said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choicest products of the land in your containers and carry down to the man a gift: a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and ladanum, pistachios and almonds.

• Exodus 33:16

  For how then shall it be known that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinguished, I and your people, from all the people that are on the face of the ground?”

• Judges 9:38

  Zebul said to him, “Where now is your mouth, with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Is not this the people whom you despised? Go out, please, now and fight against them.”

• 2 Kings 10:10

  Know, then, that nothing of the word of YHWH will fall to the ground, which YHWH spoke against the house of Ahab; YHWH has done what he spoke through his servant Elijah.”

• Job 9:24

  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; the face of its judges he covers. If not he, then who is it?

• Job 17:15

  where, then, is my hope? And my hope, who will catch sight of it?

• Job 19:6

  know, then, that Eloah has twisted me, and with his net has encircled me.

• Job 19:23

  If only, then, my words were written down; if only they were inscribed in a book;

• Job 24:25

  And if it is not so, then, who will prove me a liar, and reduce my word to nothing?”

• Proverbs 6:3

  Do this, then, my son, and free yourself, for you have come into the palm of your neighbor: go, humble yourself, and press your neighbor.

• Isaiah 19:12

  Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you, please, and let them know what YHWH Tsevaot has planned against Egypt.

• Isaiah 22:1

  The burden of the valley of Vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the rooftops,

• Hosea 13:10

  Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?