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# כְּעֶנֶת

Biblical Aramaic

**now** — used 3 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

now [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּעֶ֫נֶת: adv. now [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Ezr 4:17) contr. כְּעֶת adv. now (f. of כְּעַן; so first SS TorreyJBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת Cowley PSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 (= RÉS 492–4 = S-C M, N, O); וכ׳ formerly taken to mean and so forth);—always וּכ׳, and always in a letter, introducing the business of the letter, and to be connected with what follows, not, as MT, with what precedes: Ezr 4:10 (del., as introduced by error from end of v 11), v 11 (joining to v 12) and now, let it be known, etc., v 17 f. and now, the letter which, etc., 7:12 f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (cf. וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2 K 5:6; 10:2, and καὶ νῦν 2 Macc. 1:6).

### Jastrow 1903

כְּעֶנֶת: correspondingly and so forth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** adv. (עני) correspondingly, וּכְ׳ and so forth, i.e. and as the corresponding titles may be. Ezra IV, 10; a. e.—Ib. 17 וּכְעֶת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: now (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/#tree)

אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא מֶ֖לֶךְ מַלְכַיָּ֑א לְעֶזְרָ֣א כָ֠הֲנָא סָפַ֨ר דָּתָ֜א דִּֽי־אֱלָ֧הּ שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* Artaxerxes the.king of.(the) kings to Ezra the priest the.scribe of the.law (diy).of the.God of the.heavens perfect and now

*JPS 1917:* 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.

[Ezra 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.11/#tree)

דְּנָה֙ פַּרְשֶׁ֣גֶן אִגַּרְתָּ֔א דִּ֚י שְׁלַ֣חוּ עֲל֔וֹהִי עַל־אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֖שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֑א עַבְדָ֛יךְאֱנָ֥שׁ עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃פ

*Word for word:* this \[is\].(the).copy of the.letter which they.sent to him to Artaxerxes the king servants your the.man of.the.region.beyond the river and now

*JPS 1917:* this is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king — thy servants the men beyond the River — and now

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b6_5e0_5b6_5ea/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).