kean (now) · Rightly

Meaning

Now, at this time, until now

How it's translated

now 10
and now 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 7
Ezra 6

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 3:15In contextNow if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Daniel 4:37In contextNow I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 5:12In contextForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
Daniel 5:15In contextAnd now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
Daniel 5:16In contextAnd I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Daniel 6:8In contextNow, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

All 13 verses, by book

Ezra 6: 4:13 4:14 4:21 5:16 5:17 6:6
Daniel 7: 2:23 3:15 4:37 5:12 5:15 5:16 6:8

Aramaic dictionary

כְּעַן kean · now

now, at this time, until now Aramaic equivalent: ke.e.net (כְּעֶ֫נֶת "now" H3706)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “now” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

NOW, adverb

At the present time.
A little while ago; very lately.
At one time; at another time.
now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes.“Not this man, but barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber” John 18:40“Then said Mich, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest” Judges 17:13

All definitions and other forms of “now”

After this; things being so.
In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical.“I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart” 2 Kings 20:3
now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time.
Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession.

NOW, noun

The present time or moment.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.