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# זְמָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2165

**appointed time** — used 4 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

appointed time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2165/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְמָ֑ן: n.m. appointed time, time [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2165/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. (late) appointed time, time (Arabic زَمَنٌ, Ethiopic ዘመን: Biblical Aramaic 𝔗 זְמַן, but Syriac ܙܰܒܢܳܐ, Mand. זיבנא, Mand. זבאן, v. NöM 152; on OPers. origin v. Biblical Aramaic Sam. ࠆࠁࠍ, Palm. זבנא, cf. ReckendorfZMG 1888, 394)—sg. זְמָ֑ן Ne 2:6 Ec 3:1; sf. וְכִזְמַנָּ֑ם Est 9:27, בִּזְמַנֵּיהֶם v 31 (on Dagh. cf. Ges§ 20. 2. c).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: an appointed time (2); their appointed (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 3:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.3.1/#tree)

לַכֹּ֖ל זְמָ֑ן וְעֵ֥ת לְכָל־חֵ֖פֶץ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to (the) everything an.appointed.time and a.time belongs\] to.every matter under the heavens

*JPS 1917:* To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

[Nehemiah 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.6/#tree)

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ לִ֨י הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ וְהַשֵּׁגַ֣ל ׀ יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת אֶצְל֗וֹ עַד־מָתַ֛י יִהְיֶ֥ה מַֽהֲלָכֲךָ֖ וּמָתַ֣י תָּשׁ֑וּב וַיִּיטַ֤ב לִפְנֵֽי־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֔נִי וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה ל֖וֹ זְמָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to me the king and the queen-consort \[was\].sitting beside him until when? will.it.be journey your and when? will.you.return and it.was.good before the king and he sent.me and I gave to him an.appointed.time

*JPS 1917:* And the king said unto me, the queen also sitting by him: 'For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return?' So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2165.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2165/): 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).