זָמַן
zaman · appoint (a time)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2163 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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zaman (זָמַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “appoint (a time)”.
To fix a time. "Appointed times" are dates set beforehand.
How to say it
za·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
- Set beforehand, on a set date.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fixed ×2
- appointed ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 10:14
Please, let our officials stand for all the assembly, and let all who in our cities have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each city and its judges, until the burning anger of our Elohim is turned away from us over this matter.”
- Nehemiah 10:34
And the lots we cast for the offering of the wood, the priests, the Levites, and the people, to bring it to the house of our Elohim, by our fathers’ house, at fixed times, year after year, to burn on the altar of YHWH our Elohim, as it is written in the law;
- Nehemiah 13:31
and for the offering of the wood at fixed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, my Elohim, for good.