Hebrew adv · H570
אֶמֶשׁ
emesheh'-mesh
last night
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼemesh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H570is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H570
yesterday or last night
The King James renders it: former time, yesterday(-night)
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
emesh is rendered "last night". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:34The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Genesis 19:34אֶ֖מֶשׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- last night3
- yesterday1
- yesterday of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶמֶת | emeth | truth: faithful | Uses127 |
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- אֶ֖מֶשׁ1
- אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙1
- אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ1
- אֶ֣מֶשׁ׀1
- אָֽמֶשׁ׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Genesis
three uses
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
- אֶ֖מֶשׁʾemeshnoun · masculine singulartagged: last night
I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- אֶ֣מֶשׁ׀ʾemeshnoun · masculine singulartagged: last night
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- אָֽמֶשׁ׃ʾameshnoun · masculine singulartagged: last night
2 Kings
one use
‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
- אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙ʾemeshnoun · masculine singulartagged: yesterday
Job
one use
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
- אֶ֝֗מֶשׁʾemeshnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: yesterday of
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.