Then
אֱדַ֫יִןStrong’s H0116edayin (e-da-yin)
Appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Edayin is the Aramaic word usually translated “then”. It appears in 53 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:”
Meaning
- Then, afterwards, thereupon, from that time
How it's translated
- then 56
- and then 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 43
- Ezra 10
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:15In contextHe answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Daniel 2:17In contextThen Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
- Daniel 2:19In contextThen was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
- Daniel 2:25In contextThen Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 2:46In contextThen the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.
Aramaic dictionary
אֱדַ֫יִן edayin · then
then, afterwards, thereupon, from that time Aramaic of az (אָז "then" H0227A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “then” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THEN, adverb
- At that time, referring to a time specified, either past or future.“And the Canaanite was then in the land” Genesis 12:6“Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known” 1 Corinthians 13:12
- Afterward; soon afterward or immediately.“First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift” Matthew 5:24
- In that case; in consequence. Galatians 3:9Job 3:13
- Therefore; for this reason.
All definitions
- At another time; as now and then at one time and another.
- That time.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.