Time
עִדָּןStrong’s H5732iddan (id-dan)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Iddan is the Aramaic word usually translated “times”, “at time the” and “time”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.”
Meaning
- Timetime (of duration) · year
How it's translated
- times 4
- at time the 2
- a time 2
- time 1
- time the 1
- times the 1
- and a time 1
- and times 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 11
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:9In contextBut if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:21In contextAnd he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
- Daniel 3:5In contextThat at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:
- 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 4:16In contextLet his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
- Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
Aramaic dictionary
עִדָּן iddan · time
1) time 1a) time (of duration) 1b) year
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.