Tomorrow
מָחָרStrong’s H4279machar (ma-char)
Appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machar is the Hebrew word usually translated “tomorrow” and “future time”. It appears in 52 verses of the Old Testament.
“So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.”
Meaning
- Tomorrow, in time to come, in the futuretomorrow (as the day following the present day) · in future time
How it's translated
- tomorrow 39
- and tomorrow 6
- for tomorrow 3
- in future time 2
- to tomorrow 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 11
- Joshua 9
- 1 Samuel 8
- Numbers 4
- 2 Kings 4
- Esther 3
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:10And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
- Exodus 8:23And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.
- Exodus 8:29And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
- Exodus 9:5And the LORD appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.
- Exodus 9:18Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.
- Exodus 10:4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
All 52 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מָחָר machar · tomorrow
1) tomorrow, in time to come, in the future 1a) tomorrow (as the day following the present day) 1b) in future time
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tomorrow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TO-MOR'ROW, noun
[to and morrow.]
The day after the present.
All definitions and other forms of “tomorrow”
TOM'PION, noun
The stopper of a cannon. [See Tampion.]
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.