Aramaic word · H3706

כְּעֶ֫נֶת

ukhe'enet

now

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 4 times in 4 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

now, and now

Aramaic of ke.an (כְּעַן "now" H3705)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 4

  1. Ezra 4:10 וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃ and now

    and the rest of the peoples whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and elsewhere west of the Euphrates.

  2. Ezra 4:11 וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃ פ and now

    (This is the text of the letter they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:

  3. Ezra 4:17 וּכְעֶֽת׃ ס and now

    Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.

  4. Ezra 7:12 וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃ and now

    Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.