Last night
אֶ֫מֶשׁStrong’s H0570emesh (e-mesh)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Emesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “last night”, “yesterday” and “yesterday of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”
Meaning
- Yesterday, last night
- Recently (fig.)
How it's translated
- last night 3
- yesterday 1
- yesterday of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- 2 Kings 1
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:29It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 31:42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
- 2 Kings 9:26Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
- Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫מֶשׁ emesh · last night
1) yesterday, last night 2) recently (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “yesterday” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YESTERDAY, noun
[See Yester.]
- The day last past; the day next before the present.“We are but of yesterday and know nothing” Job 8:9
- yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday yesterday we received letters from our friends.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.