Strong's Lexicon

H645

H645 — אֵפוֹ אֵפוֹא

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

Hebrewephowprt-d.Occurrences: 15TWOT: 144

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H645
Word:	אֵפוֹ אֵפוֹא
Part of Speech:	prt-d.
Etymology:	from H6311
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	15
Transliteration:	ephow
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	ay-fo' (or hephowe {ay-fo'}) prt-d.
Meaning:	1. strictly a demonstrative particle, here 2. but used of time, now or then
KJV Renderings:	here, now, where?

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אֵפוֺ (Job 17:15; Job 19:6; Job 19:23; Job 24:25), elsewhere אֵפוֺא (compare רִבּוֺ and רִבּוֺא ), particle [enclitic] then (probably from פּוֺ, a particle with a demonstrative force, compare פּוֺ, פֹּה here, with א prefixed. In the Targs. פּוֺן is used somewhat similarly, e.g. Gen 26:10; Num 11:29; Isa 1:9; Isa 48:18; Isa 48:19), — used

1. in connection with interrogatory pronouns or adverbs (like ἄρα, ποτε tandem): מִי אֵפוֺא Gen 27:3 who, then, . . . ? Gen 27:37 וּלְכָה אֵפוֺא מָה אֶעֱשֶׂה and for thee, then, what shall I do, my son ? Exod 33:16 וּבַמֶּה יִוָּדַע אֵפוֺא and wherein shall it be known, then…? אַיה אֵפוֺא where, then ? Judg 9:38; Isa 19:12; Job 17:15; Hos 13:10 אֱהִי מַלְכְךָ אֵפוֺא Isa 22:1 מַהלָּֿח אֵפוֺא what is there to thee, pray. . .?

2. in a command or wish: 2Kgs 10:10 דְּעוּ אֵפוֺא ? know, then; (in apodosis) Prov 6:3; Job 19:6; Job 19:23 מִיּיִֿתֵּן אֵפוֺ וְיִכָּֽתְבוּן מִלָּי֑ would, then, that my words were written !

3. after אִם Gen 43:11 אִםכֵּֿן אֵפוֺא זאֹת עֲשׂו if it be so, then, do this, Job 9:24 if not then , who is it ? Job 24:25.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אפוא (h-phoh')

Genesis 27:33

KJV: And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.trembled…: Heb. trembled with a great trembling greatlytaken: Heb. hunted

EHCC: Who? where(is) he that hath taken venison,

Exodus 33:16

KJV: For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

EHCC: wherein shall it be known here

2 Kings 10:10

KJV: Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lord hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.by: Heb. by the hand of

EHCC: Know now that there shall fall

Job 9:24

KJV: The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

EHCC: if not, where, (and) who (is) he?

Job 4:25

EHCC: And if (it be) not (so) mow, who will

Proverbs 6:8

KJV: Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

EHCC: Do this now, my son, and deliver

Isaiah 19:12

KJV: Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

EHCC: where (are) thy wise (men)?

Isaiah 22:1

KJV: The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

EHCC: What ail thee now,

Hosea 13:10

KJV: I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?I will…: rather, Where is thy king?

EHCC: where (is any other) that may save