Strong's Lexicon

H2165

H2165 — זְמָן

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewzmannoun mascOccurrences: 4TWOT: 557a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H2165
Word:זְמָן
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H2163
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:zman
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:zem-awn'
Meaning:1. an appointed occasion
KJV Renderings:season, time.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2386

זְמָ֑ן noun masculine (late) appointed time, time (Arabic [untranscribed source text 1500], Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1501] Biblical Aramaic, ᵑ7 זְמַן, but Syriac [untranscribed source text 1502], Mandean זיבנא, Samaritan [untranscribed source text 1503], Palmyrene זבנא, compare ReckendZMG 1888, 394

Mandean זנאן, see NöM 152; on Old Persian origin see Biblical Aramaic) — singular זְמָ֑ן Neh 2:6; Eccl 3:1 suffix וְכִזְמַנָּ֑ם Esth 9:27, בִּזְמַנֵּיהֶם Esth 9:31, (on Dagh. compare Ges «GKC:20»§ 20. 2, c).


BDB9490

זְמַן noun masculine Dan 3:7 time (probably loan-word from Old Persian zrvan, zarvâna , time, age, M 152 Scheft45; compare Biblical Hebrew (late); and (on change of ν [b] to m) FräZA iii. 52; Nabataean זמן, Palmyrene (Nabataean) זבן Lzb266; Lzb268 SAC48. 49); — absolute ׳ ז Dan 2:16; Dan 7:12 emphatic זִמְנָא Ezra 5:3 +; plural absolute Dan 6:11 +, emphatic זִמְנַיָּא Dan 2:21 — time: specified time Dan 2:16 appointed time Dan 7:12; Dan 7:22, compare Dan 2:21 בֵּהּ זִמְנָא at that time Ezra 5:3; Dan 3:7; Dan 3:8; Dan 4:33 (festival) seasons Dan 7:25 time, occurrence, Dan 6:11; Dan 6:14 three times in the day.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

זמן (z’mahn)

Nehemiah 2:6

KJV: And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.queen: Heb. wife
EHCC: and I set him a time.

Esther 9:27

KJV: The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;fail: Heb. pass
EHCC: and according to their (appointed) time

Ecclesiastes 3:1

KJV: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
EHCC: To every (thing there is) a season,
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