Lexical Definition

‎כְּעֶנֶת‎ kᵉʻeneth (keh-eh'-neth) now ^A:Adv
(Aramaic) or כְּעֶת kᵉʻeth (keh-eth'); (Aramaic), feminine of ‎כְּעַן‎

at such a time.

• thus (only in the formula 'and so forth')

1) now, and now

Extended Information

Aramaic of: כְּעַן

• Aramaic of ke.an (‎כ‎ְּ‎ע‎ַ‎ן‎ "now" כְּעַן)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: כְּעַן

‎כְּעֶ֫נֶת‎ and (Ezra 4:17) contracted ‎כְּעֶת‎ adverb now (feminine of ‎כְּעַן‎; so first SS Torrey^{JBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.}; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic ‎כענת‎ Cowley^{PSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312} ( = RES^492-4 = S-C^{M, 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: Ezra 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of vEzra 4:11), vEzra 4:11 (joining to vEzra 4:12) and now, let it be known, etc., vEzra 4:17f. and now, the letter which, etc., Ezra 7:12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare ‎וְעַתָּה‎ similarly in letters 2Kgs 5:6; 2Kgs 10:2, and καὶ νῦν 2 Macc 1:6).

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