Lexical Summary keeneth or keeth: now Original Word: כְּעֶנֶתTransliteration: keeneth or keeth Phonetic Spelling: (keh-eh'-neth) Part of Speech: Adverb Feminine Short Definition: now Meaning: thus Strong's Concordance at such a time (Aramaic) or kaeth (Aramaic) {keh-eth'}; feminine of k'an; thus (only in the formula "and so forth") -- at such a time. see HEBREW k'an Brown-Driver-Briggs H3706. keeneth or keeth כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (Ezra 4:17) contracted כְּעֶת adverb now (feminine of כְּעַן; so first SS TorreyJBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת CowleyPSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 ( = RES492-4 = S-CM, N, O); ׳וכ formerly taken to mean and so forth); — always ׳וּכ, and always in a letter, introducing the business of the letter, and to be connected with what follows, not, as ᵑ0, with what precedes: 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of 4:11), 4:11 (joining to 4:12) and now, let it be known, etc., 4:17f. and now, the letter which, etc., 7:12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2 Kings 5:6; 10:2, and καὶ νῦν2Macc 1:6). |
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