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אָז adverb (compare [untranscribed source text 114], [untranscribed source text 115] [untranscribed source text 116] also Biblical Aramaic אֱדַיִן properly a substantive = time ; see מֵאָז ) at that time, then, whether expressing duration, or inception (= thereupon).
1. strictly temporal:
a. of past time: — without a verb Gen 12:6; Gen 13:7; Josh 14:11; 2Sam 23:14 with a perfect Gen 4:26; Exod 4:26; Josh 10:33; Judg 8:3; Judg 13:21;
Jer 22:15
אָז טוֺב לוֺ
then was it well to him (compare Jer 22:16; Hos 2:9); more usually (especially when = thereupon
) with an imperfect (see Dr§ 27) Exod 15:1; Num 21:17;
Josh 8:30; Josh 10:12;
Josh 22:1; 1Kgs 3:16;
1Kgs 8:1; 1Kgs 9:11 (see
DrIntr.192) and elsewhere.
b. of future time
(usually where some emphasis is intended), with imperfect Isa 35:5; Isa 35:6; Isa 60:5; Mic 3:4, rather differently Lev 26:41; 1Sam 20:12 rarely with
perfect 2Sam 5:24
b (will have
gone forth) Isa 33:23: with an accompanying logical force, implying the fulfilment of a
condition, then = if or when this has been done
(with the imperfect)
Gen 24:41;
Exod 12:44; Exod 12:48; Deut 29:19; Josh 1:8; 1Sam 6:3; Isa 58:8; Isa 58:9; Jer 11:15
Hi
Ke
Ps 19:14;
Ps 51:21;
Prov 3:23;
Job 11:15;
Job 13:20;
Job 22:26.
c. in poetry אז is sometimes used to throw emphasis on a particular
feature of
the description Gen
49:4
; Exod
15:15
; Judg 5:8;
Judg 5:11; Judg 5:13; Judg 5:19; Judg 5:22; Isa 33:23;
Isa 41:1; Hab 1:11; Ps 2:5; Ps 96:12.
d. it points back with emphasis to an infinitive with בּ
2Sam 5:24 a
Ps 126:2
(twice
in verse); Job
28:27
; Job
33:16
to בַּיּוֺם הַהוּא (anomalously) 1Chr 16:7.
2. expressing logical sequence strictly in the apodosis: — after אם (rare) for
sake of special emphasis Isa 58:14; Prov 2:5; Job 9:31 = in that case, after לוּ or
לוּלֵא
2Sam 2:27
hadst
thou not spoken, כִּי אָז surely then had the people, etc. 2Sam 19:7;
Ps 119:92
after אחלי
2Kgs 5:3; Ps 119:6
after a
suppressed protasis 2Kgs 13:19; Job 3:13
יָשַׁנְתִּי אָז יָנוּחַ לִי I had slept, then were there rest for me;
Josh 22:31
(strangely) = now, as things are; Eccl 2:15 = that being so. (122 t.,
besides
מאז and מןאֿז. Seldom used except where some special emphasis is de-sired.
'Then'
of
AV
RV
more commonly repre-sents וְ, especially in the apodosis.)