3706. keeneth or keeth
Strong's Concordance
keeneth or keeth: now
Original Word: כְּעֶ֫נֶת
Part of Speech: Adverb Feminine
Transliteration: keeneth or keeth
Phonetic Spelling: (keh-eh'-neth)
Short Definition: now
Brown-Driver-Briggs
כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (Ezra 4:17) contracted כְּעֶת adverb now (feminine of כְּעַן; so first SS TorreyJBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת CowleyPSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 ( = RES492-4 = S-CM, 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 ᵑ0, with what precedes: Ezra 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of Ezra 4:11), Ezra 4:11 (joining to Ezra 4:12) and now, let it be known, etc., Ezra 4:17f. and now, the letter which, etc., Ezra 7:12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2 Kings 5:6; 2 Kings 10:2, and καὶ νῦν2Macc 1:6).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
at such a time

(Aramaic) or kaeth (Aramaic) {keh-eth'}; feminine of k'an; thus (only in the formula "and so forth") -- at such a time.

see HEBREW k'an

Forms and Transliterations
וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃ וּכְעֶֽת׃ וכענת׃ וכעת׃ ū·ḵə·‘e·neṯ ū·ḵə·‘eṯ ucheEnet ucheEt ūḵə‘eneṯ ūḵə‘eṯ
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4 Occurrences


ū·ḵə·‘e·neṯ — 3 Occ.
ū·ḵə·‘eṯ — 1 Occ.

Ezra 4:10
HEB: עֲבַֽר־ נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃
NAS: of the region beyond the River. Now
KJV: the river, and at such a time.
INT: of the region the River Now

Ezra 4:11
HEB: עֲבַֽר־ נַהֲרָ֖ה וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃ פ
NAS: the River, and now
KJV: the river, and at such a time.
INT: the region the River and now

Ezra 4:17
HEB: נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁלָ֖ם וּכְעֶֽת׃ ס
NAS: the River: Peace. And now
KJV: the river, Peace, and at such a time.
INT: the River Peace and now

Ezra 7:12
HEB: שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃
NAS: of heaven, perfect [peace]. And now
KJV: perfect [peace], and at such a time.
INT: of heaven perfect and now

4 Occurrences

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