כְּעֶת

«כְּעֶת» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: now — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

Used: 1 times · Key: lemma:כְּעֶת · BDB: כְּעֶ֫נֶת

Glosses

now (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

now tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. now tree →

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

כְּעֶת

The whole Jastrow entry

, v. כְּעֶנֶת

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «כְּעֶת» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Ezra 4:17

פִּתְגָמָ֞א שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְכָּ֗א עַל־רְח֤וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵם֙ וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י סָֽפְרָ֔א וּשְׁאָר֙ כְּנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹן דִּ֥י יָתְבִ֖ין בְּשָֽׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֧ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁלָ֖ם וּכְעֶֽת׃ס

Word for word: the word he.sent the king to Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe and the.rest of their.associates who [were].dwelling in Samaria and the.rest of.the.region.beyond the river peace and now

JPS 1917: Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the commander, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the River: 'Peace, and now

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