Time
זְמָ֑ןStrong’s H2165zeman (ze-man)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zeman is the Hebrew word usually translated “time”, “according to appointed time their” and “at appointed times their”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.”
Meaning
- A set time, appointed time, time
How it's translated
- a time 1
- and according to appointed time their 1
- at appointed times their 1
- an appointed time 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 2
- Nehemiah 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 9:27The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
- Esther 9:31To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Hebrew dictionary
זְמָ֑ן zeman · time
a set time, appointed time, time Aramaic equivalent: ze.man (זְמַן "time" H2166)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “time” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TIME, noun
[Latin tempus; tempora, the falls of the head, also tempest, etc. See Tempest. time is primarily equivalent to season; to the Gr.wpa in its original sense, opportunity, occasion, a fall, an event, that which comes.]
- A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future.“God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets” Hebrews 1:1
- A proper time; a season.“There is a time to every purpose” Ecclesiastes 3:1“The time of figs was not yet” Mark 11:13
- Duration.
- A space or measured portion of duration.
All definitions and other forms of “time”
- Life or duration, in reference to occupation.
- Age; a part of duration distinct from other parts; as ancient times; modern times.
- Hour of travail.
- Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition.
- Repetition; doubling; addition of a number to itself; as, to double cloth four times; four times four amount to sixteen.
- Measure of sounds in music; as common time and treble time In concerts, it is all important, that the performers keep time or exact time
- The state of things at a particular period; as when we say, good times, or bad times, hard times, dull times for trade, etc.
- In grammar, tense.
- A considerable space of duration; process or continuation of duration.“The spirit began to move him at times” Judges 13:25
- To go too slow; as, a watch or clock loses time
TIME, verb transitive
To adapt to the time or occasion; to bring, begin or perform at the proper season or time; as, the measure is well timed, or ill timed. No small part of political wisdom consists in knowing how to time propositions and measures.
- To regulate as to time; as, he timed the stroke.
- To measure; as in music or harmony.
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.