עֵת
ʻêth · ayth
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5703 (עַד);
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] after, (al-) ways, [idiom] certain, [phrase] continually, [phrase] evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › the mark, the covenant sign
To see and know of the mark, the covenant sign.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עֵת above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
296 occurrences · 296 OT · 0 NT · 113 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- at that time32 · 21%
- a time15 · 10%
- and a time15 · 10%
- in the time13 · 8%
- time8 · 5%
- the time8 · 5%
- about this time7 · 4%
- and at that time6 · 4%
- in his season6 · 4%
- at the time4 · 3%
- at all times4 · 3%
- when4 · 3%
- in due season4 · 3%
- even to the time3 · 2%
- and it came to pass at that time3 · 2%
- from time3 · 2%
- and in that time3 · 2%
- times3 · 2%
- to time3 · 2%
- of the times2 · 1%
- and about the time2 · 1%
- for at that time2 · 1%
- you at that time2 · 1%
- at all seasons2 · 1%
- and it came to pass at the time2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.