Definition
time past, i.e. yesterday or last night
Traditional renderings: former time, yesterday(-night)
Traditional renderings: former time, yesterday(-night)
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֶ֫מֶשׁ:
- χθέςchthes“yesterday”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5 total
- Genesis 19:34אֶ֖מֶשׁ · last nightThe next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
- Genesis 31:29אֶ֣מֶשׁ׀ · but last nightI have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 31:42אָֽמֶשׁ׃ · and last nightIf the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- 2 Kings 9:26אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙ · yesterday‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”
- Job 30:3אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ · by nightGaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.