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# אָז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H227

**at that time** — used 141 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

at that time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/227/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָז: adv. at that time, then thereupon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/227/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (cf. إِذًا, ࠀࠃ: also Biblical Aramaic אֱדַיִן, proposes a subst. = time: see מֵאָז) at that time, then, whether expressing duration, or inception (= thereupon). strictly temporal: of past time:—without a verb Gn 12:6; 13:7 Jos 14:11 2 S 23:14; with a pf. Gn 4:26 Ex 4:26 Jos 10:33 Ju 8:3; 13:21 Je 22:15 אָז טוֹב לוֹ then was it well to him (cf. v 16 Ho 2:9); more usually (especially when = thereupon) with an impf. (v. Dr§ 27) Ex 15:1 Nu 21:17 Jos 8:30: 10:12; 22:1 1 K 3:16; 8:1; 9:11 (v. DrIntr. 192) al. of fut. time (usually where some emph. is intended), with impf. Is 35:5, 6; 60:5 Mi 3:4, rather differently Lv 26:41 1 S 20:12; rarely with pf. 2 S 5:24b (will have gone forth) Is 33:23: with an accompanying logical force, implying the fulfilment of a condition, then = if or when this has been done (with the impf.) Gn 24:41 Ex 12:44, 48 Dt 29:19 Jos 1:8 1 S 6:3 Is 58:8, 9 Je 11:15 Hi Ke ψ 19:14; 51:21 Pr 3:23 Jb 11:15; 13:20; 22:26. in poetry אז is sometimes used to throw emphasis on a particular feature of the description Gn 49:4 Ex 15:15 Ju 5:8, 11, 13, 19, 22 Is 33:23; 41:1 Hb 1:11 ψ 2:5; 96:12. it points back with emphasis to an inf. with בּ 2 S 5:24a ψ 126:2(×2) Jb 28:27; 33:16; to בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא (anomalously) 1 Ch 16:7. expressing logical sequence strictly: in the apod.:—after אם (rare) for sake of special emphasis Is 58:14 Pr 2:5 Jb 9:31; = in that case, after לוּ or לוּלֵא 2 S 2:27 hadst thou not spoken, כִּי אָז surely then had the people, etc. 19:7 ψ 119:92; after אחלי 2 K 5:3 ψ 119:6; after a suppressed protasis 2 K 13:19 Jb 3:13 יָשַׁנְתִּי יָנוּחַ לִי I had slept, then were there rest for me; Jos 22:31 (strangely) = now, as things are; Ec 2:15 = that being so. (122 times besides מאז and מן־אז. Seldom used except where some special emphasis is desired. ‘Then’ of AV RV more commonly represents וְ, especially in the apodosis.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 70 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: then (141).

## In the verses

[Psalms 93:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.93.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.93.2/#tree)

נָכ֣וֹן כִּסְאֲךָ֣ מֵאָ֑ז מֵֽעוֹלָ֣ם אָֽתָּה׃

*Word for word:* \[has.been\].established throne your from then \[are\].from long.ago you

*JPS 1917:* Thy throne is established of old; Thou art from everlasting.

[Proverbs 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.2.5/#tree)

אָ֗ז תָּ֭בִין יִרְאַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וְדַ֖עַת אֱלֹהִ֣ים תִּמְצָֽא׃

*Word for word:* then you.will.discern the.fear of.Yahweh and the.knowledge of.God you.will.find

*JPS 1917:* Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/227.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/227/): 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).