570. emesh
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emesh: yesterday
Original Word: אָ֫מֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: emesh
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-mesh)
Short Definition: yesterday

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
yesterday
NASB Translation
last 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 COTGloss, 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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