Biblical Hebrew

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hebrew #570 - אֶמֶשׁ emesh


Original Word:אֶמֶשׁ
Transliteration: emesh
Phonetic Spelling:(eh'-mesh)
Definition:yesterday
Part of Speech:Adverb
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

former time, yesterday night

Time past, i.e. Yesterday or last night -- former time, yesterday(-night)


Englishman's Concordance

1) yesterday, last night
2) recently (figuratively)
Part of Speech: adverb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: unknown derivation
Same Word by TWOT Number: 120

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֶ֫מֶשׁadverbyesterday (etymology dubious; MV after Fl De on Job 30:3 compare Sta§ 256 c derive from √ משׁה=Arabic , whence , evening; see also in Thes, & compare Assyrian mušu, night COTGloss, Ethiopic but also Arabic =Assyrian amšatu, yesterday)=last nightGenesis 19:34; Genesis 31:29,42 (אָ֑מֶשׁ);=recently 2 Kings 9:26. — Job 30:3שׁוֺאָה׳א is difficult & uncertain Thes MV and others darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV, but dubious, compare Di; G. Hoffm. reads ׳אֵם שׁ=the mother of (all) the ruined ( said of the desert).

אֱמֶתאֲמִתַּי see אמן.

אַמְתַּ֫חַת see מתח.


Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 570. אָ֫מֶשׁ (emesh) — 5 Occurrences

Genesis 19:34
HEB:הֵן־ שָׁכַ֥בְתִּי אֶ֖מֶשׁ אֶת־ אָבִ֑י
NAS: I lay last night with my father;
KJV: Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:
INT: Behold lay last with my father

Genesis 31:29
HEB:וֵֽאלֹהֵ֨י אֲבִיכֶ֜ם אֶ֣מֶשׁ ׀ אָמַ֧ר אֵלַ֣י
NAS: spoke to me last night, saying,
KJV: spake unto me yesternight, saying,
INT: the God of your father last spoke about

Genesis 31:42
HEB:אֱלֹהִ֖ים וַיּ֥וֹכַח אָֽמֶשׁ׃
NAS: so He rendered judgment last night.
KJV: and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
INT: God rendered last

2 Kings 9:26
HEB:בָנָ֜יו רָאִ֤יתִי אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙ נְאֻם־ יְהוָ֔ה
NAS: I have seen yesterday the blood
KJV: Surely I have seen yesterday the blood
INT: of his sons have seen yesterday saith the LORD

Job 30:3
HEB:הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃
NAS: the dry ground by night in waste
KJV: into the wilderness in former time desolate
INT: gnaw the dry night desolate and desolation

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