כְּעַן

«כְּעַן» 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 2 verses in layers.

Used: 13 times · Key: lemma:כְּעַן · BDB: כְּעַן²

Glosses

now (13)

Meaning (OSHB)

now tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. now tree →

The whole BDB entry

adv. now (so Egyptian Aramaic (CISii. 137 = CookeNo. 73 RÉS 361 B S-CPap. C 5); 𝔗, e.g. Nu 22:4: עַן prob. a subst. from [עָנָה] the √ of עֵת (p. 773a), time; so כְּעַן lit. at (this) time = Heb. עַתָּה: K§ 67, 4);—Dn 2:23 וּכְעַן הוֹדַעְתַּנִי, 3:15; 4:34; 5:12, 15, 16; 6:9; Ezr 4:13, 14, 21; 5:17; 6:6; עַד־כְּעַן until now Ezr 5:16 (so 𝔗 Gn 18:22 +).

Jastrow 1903

כְּעַן: now tree →

The whole Jastrow entry

(contr. of כְּעִידָּן, v. כְּדוּן) now. Targ. O. Num. XXIV, 4; 6 (Y. כדון, h. text עתה). Targ. II Sam. III, 8 מכ׳ (h. text היום); a. fr.—Cant. R. to I, 1 הוינה כד הוינא ברם כ׳ וכ׳ I was (king) when I was, but now I am no more.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 13 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, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

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

In the verses

Ezra 4:21

כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃

Word for word: now make a.decree to make.to.cease the men these and the city this not it.will.be.built until from me the decree it.will.be.made

JPS 1917: Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.

Daniel 6:9

כְּעַ֣ן מַלְכָּ֔א תְּקִ֥ים אֱסָרָ֖א וְתִרְשֻׁ֣ם כְּתָבָ֑א דִּ֣י לָ֧א לְהַשְׁנָיָ֛ה כְּדָת־מָדַ֥י וּפָרַ֖ס דִּי־לָ֥א תֶעְדֵּֽא׃

Word for word: now O king you.will.establish the prohibition and you.will.sign the writing that not to change according to.the.law of.[the].Medes and.[the] Persians which not it.will.pass.away

JPS 1917: Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

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