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Strong's #227 - אָז
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1007) za (אז AZ) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Time: The letter z represents an agricultural implement of cutting used in the harvest. The harvest is a very prominent "time" to the early Hebrews.
A) za (אז AZ) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?: A specific time.
Nm) za (אז AZ) - At That Time: A point in time. KJV (22): beginning, even, for, from, hitherto, now, old, since, then, time, when, yet - Strongs: H227 (אָז)
fm) iza (אזי AZY) - At That Time: A point in time. KJV (3): then - Strongs: H233 (אֲזַי)
Jeff Brenner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
אָז [“a demonstrative particle originally of place, in that place, there, kindred with זֶה; Arab. إِذْ, be-hold!” called in Man.]; subst. time (from the root אָזָה, comp. עָר), hence in accusat. at that time, then, specially
(1) damals, then, of past time; Arabic إِذ then, and إِذْ tunc, then, thereon; Germ. da; in apodosis, behold! fiehe da fo; Chald. אֱדַיִן; Genesis 12:6; Joshua 10:12, 14:11. Followed by a preterite, 1 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 6:1, 8:12, 17 2 Chronicles 8:17 and a future, used for a preterite, Jos. l. cit.; Exodus 15:1; Deuteronomy 4:41. Comp. Lehrg. p. 773.
(2) then, after that, of future time. Construed with a fut. which retains its own power; Psalms 96:12, אָז יְרַנְּנוּ “then shall they rejoice;” Zephaniah 3:9; Job 3:13 sometimes also with a preterite in the signification of the future, where a future precedes, Judges 5:11; Exodus 15:15.
(3) then, after that, for therefore, because of that, Jeremiah 22:15; Psalms 40:8.
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