Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2165
זְמָן
zemanzem-awn'
time
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zᵉmân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2165is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2165
an appointed occasion
The King James renders it: season, time.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zeman is rendered "time". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 2:6Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
Nehemiah 2:6זְמָֽן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a time1
- an appointed time1
- and according to appointed time their1
- at appointed times their1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּזְמַנֵּיהֶ֗ם1
- וְכִזְמַנָּ֑ם1
- זְמָ֑ן1
- זְמָֽן׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
Nehemiah
one use
Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
- זְמָֽן׃zemannoun · masculine singulartagged: a time
Esther
two uses
the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
- וְכִזְמַנָּ֑םvekhizmanamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and according to appointed time their
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
- בִּזְמַנֵּיהֶ֗םbizmaneihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: at appointed times their
Ecclesiastes
one use
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- זְמָ֑ןzemannoun · masculine singulartagged: an appointed time
The letters
Gematria 97· 747 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.