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# עֲדֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5728

**hitherto** — used 2 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

hitherto [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5728/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲדֶ֫נָֿה: adv. hitherto, still [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5728/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Ec 4:2 Baer Ginsb (al. עֲדֶ֫נָּה), abbrev. עֲדֶן Ec 4:3 (from עַד־הֵנָּה, עַד־הֵן; cf. NH עֲדַיִן, e.g. Ned. 9:10), adv. hitherto, still.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pleasure (1); still (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.2/#tree)

וְשַׁבֵּ֧חַ אֲנִ֛י אֶת־הַמֵּתִ֖ים שֶׁכְּבָ֣ר מֵ֑תוּ מִן־הַ֣חַיִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֛ר הֵ֥מָּה חַיִּ֖ים עֲדֶֽנָה׃

*Word for word:* and I.commended I (et) the.dead \[people\] who already they.had.died more.than the living who they \[were\].alive pleasure still

*JPS 1917:* Wherefore I praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive;

[Ecclesiastes 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.4.3/#tree)

וְטוֹב֙ מִשְּׁנֵיהֶ֔ם אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־עֲדֶ֖ן לֹ֣א הָיָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־רָאָה֙ אֶת־הַמַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה הָרָ֔ע אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשָׂ֖ה תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[is\] good more than both.of.them (et) \[one\].who still not he.has.been \[one\].who not he.has.seen (et) the activity (the) evil which it.is.done under the sun

*JPS 1917:* but better than they both is he that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5728.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5728/): 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).