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Hebrew verb · H857

אָתָה

athahaw-thaw'

to come

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼâthâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H857is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H857

to arrive

The King James renders it: (be-, things to) come (upon), bring.

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

athah is rendered "to come". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 33:2He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

Deuteronomy 33:2וְאָתָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's twenty-one uses are in Isaiah.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • come3
  • and he came2
  • bring2
  • it will come2
  • the coming2
  • they will come2
  • and coming1
  • and he has come1
  • and it came to me1
  • and they have come1
  • it comes1
  • it will arrive1

and 2 more, 21 uses in all

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.

אָתָהathahto comeUses16

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • הָאֹתִיּ֣וֹת2
  • יֶאֱתָ֑יוּ2
  • אָתָ֥ה1
  • אֵתָ֕יוּ1
  • אֵתָ֥יוּ1
  • אֵתָֽיוּ׃ ס1
  • אָתָ֣נוּ1
  • הֵתָ֣יוּ1
  • הֵתָ֥יוּ1
  • וְאָתָ֖ה1
  • וְאֹתִיּ֛וֹת1
  • וַיַּ֔את1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural3HVqi3mp
  • verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural3HVqv2mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural2HTd/Vqrfpa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVhv2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural1HC/Vqrfpa
  • Hc/Vqw3mp/Sn1Hc/Vqw3mp/Sn
  • Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural1HVqp1cp

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.

    Deuteronomy 33:2

    • וְאָתָ֖הveatahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he came
  • He chose the best land for himself, because a ruler’s portion was reserved for him there. He came with the leaders of the people; he administered the LORD’s justice and His ordinances for Israel.”

    Deuteronomy 33:21

    • וַיֵּתֵא֙vaiyete'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he came

Job

four uses
  • For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

    Job 3:25

    • וַיֶּאֱתָיֵ֑נִיvaiyeetayeniHc/Vqw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and it came to me
  • For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

    Job 16:22

    • יֶאֱתָ֑יוּyeetayuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will come
  • They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

    Job 30:14

    • יֶאֱתָ֑יוּyeetayuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they come
  • Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.

    Job 37:22

    • יֶֽאֱתֶ֑הyeetehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it comes

Psalms

one use
  • Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.

    Psalms 68:31

    • יֶאֱתָ֣יוּyeetayuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will come

Proverbs

one use
  • when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

    Proverbs 1:27

    • יֶאֱתֶ֑הyeetehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will arrive

Isaiah

ten uses
  • The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

    Isaiah 21:12

    • אָתָ֥הʾatahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will come
    • אֵתָֽיוּ׃ סʾetayuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: come
  • Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

    Isaiah 21:14

    • הֵתָ֣יוּhetayuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bring
  • The islands see and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward.

    Isaiah 41:5

    • וַיֶּאֱתָיֽוּן׃vaiyeetayunHc/Vqw3mp/Sntagged: and they have come
  • Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.

    Isaiah 41:23

    • הָאֹתִיּ֣וֹתhaotiyotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the coming
  • I have raised up one from the north, and he has come—one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

    Isaiah 41:25

    • וַיַּ֔אתvaiyatHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has come
  • Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.

    Isaiah 44:7

    • וְאֹתִיּ֛וֹתveotiyotconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: and coming
  • Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

    Isaiah 45:11

    • הָאֹתִיּ֣וֹתhaotiyotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the coming
  • Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

    Isaiah 56:9

    • אֵתָ֕יוּʾetayuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: come
  • “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

    Isaiah 56:12

    • אֵתָ֥יוּʾetayuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: come

Jeremiah

two uses
  • “Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

    Jeremiah 3:22

    • אָתָ֣נוּʾatanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have come
  • Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

    Jeremiah 12:9

    • הֵתָ֥יוּhetayuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: bring

Micah

one use
  • And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion—the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

    Micah 4:8

    • תֵּאתֶ֑הtetehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will come

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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