To come
אָתָהStrong’s H0857atah (a-tah)
Appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atah is the Hebrew word usually translated “come”, “came” and “it will come”. It appears in 20 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.”
Meaning
- To come, arrive(Qal) to come (of men, time, beasts, calamity) · (Hiphil) to bring
How it's translated
- come 3
- and he came 2
- they will come 2
- it will come 2
- bring 2
- the coming 2
- and it came to me 1
- they come 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 9
- Job 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 33:21And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
- Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Job 30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- Job 37:22Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
- Psalms 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Hebrew dictionary
אָתָה atah · to come
1) to come, arrive 1a) (Qal) to come (of men, time, beasts, calamity) 1b) (Hiphil) to bring Aramaic equivalent: a.tah (אֲתָה "to come" H0858)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “come” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COME, verb intransitive
- To move towards; to advance near, in any manner, and from any distance.
- To draw nigh; to approach; to arrive; to be present“COME thou and all thy house into the ark” Genesis 7:1“All my time will I wait, till my change come” Job 14:14“When shall I come and appear before God?” Psalms 42:2“Then shall the end come” Matthew 24:14“Thy kingdom come; thy will be done” Matthew 6:10
- To advance and arrive at some state or condition; as, the ships came to action; the players came to blows; is it come to this?“His sons come to honor and he knoweth it not” Job 14:21
- To happen or fall out; as, how comes that? Let come what will.“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds” Ezra 9:13“All things come alike to all” Ecclesiastes 9:2
All definitions and other forms of “come”
- To advance or move into view; to appear; as, blood or color comes and goes in the face.
- To sprout, as plants; to spring. Isaiah 37:3
- To become.
- To appear or be formed, as butter; to advance or change from cream to butter; a common use of the word; as, the butter comes.
- come in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come let us go.“The Lord will come down on mount Sinai” Exodus 19:11“Your principalities shall come down” Jeremiah 13:18“COME down from thy glory” Jeremiah 48:18
COME, noun
A sprout.
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.