Lexicon emesh: yesterday Original Word: אָ֫מֶשׁPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: emesh Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-mesh) Short Definition: yesterday NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionyesterday NASB Translationlast night (3), night (1), yesterday (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs אֶ֫מֶשׁ adverb yesterday (etymology dubious; MV after Fl De on Job 30:3 compare Sta § 256 c derive from √ משׁה = Arabic , whence , evening; see also in Thes, & compare Assyrian mušu, night COT Gloss, Ethiopic but also Arabic = Assyrian amšatu, yesterday) = last night Genesis 19:34; Genesis 31:29,42 ( אָ֑מֶשׁ); = recently 2 Kings 9:26. — Job 30:3 שׁוֺאָה ׳א is difficult & uncertain Thes MV and others darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV, but dubious, compare Di; G. Hoffm. reads ׳אֵם שׁ = the mother of (all) the ruined ( said of the desert). אֱמֶת אֲמִתַּי see אמן. אַמְתַּ֫חַת see מתח.
Strong's former time, yesterday night Time past, i.e. Yesterday or last night -- former time, yesterday(-night) |
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