To appoint
זָמַןStrong’s H2163zaman (za-man)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaman is the Hebrew word usually translated “appointed”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.”
Meaning
- To appoint a time, be fixed, be appointed(Pual)
How it's translated
- appointed 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 2
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 10:34And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
- Nehemiah 13:31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
Hebrew dictionary
זָמַן zaman · to appoint
1) to appoint a time, be fixed, be appointed 1a) (Pual) 1a1) to be fixed, be appointed 1a2) appointed times (participle) Aramaic equivalent: ze.man (זְמַן "to agree" H2164)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “appointed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
APPOINT'ED, participle passive
- Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted.
- Furnished; equipped with things necessary; as, a ship or an army is well appointed
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.