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title: כְּעַן — now · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: כְּעַן (lemma:כְּעַן), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 13 times: now. BDB 1906: adv. now. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּעַן

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«כְּעַן» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **now** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** lemma:כְּעַן · **BDB:** כְּעַן²

### Glosses

now (13)

### Meaning (OSHB)

now [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. now [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b7_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adv. now (so Egyptian Aramaic (CISii. 137 = CookeNo. 73 RÉS 361 B S-CPap. C 5); 𝔗, e.g. Nu 22:4: עַן prob. a subst. from \[עָנָה\] the √ of עֵת (p. 773a), time; so כְּעַן lit. at (this) time = Heb. עַתָּה: K§ 67, 4);—Dn 2:23 וּכְעַן הוֹדַעְתַּנִי, 3:15; 4:34; 5:12, 15, 16; 6:9; Ezr 4:13, 14, 21; 5:17; 6:6; עַד־כְּעַן until now Ezr 5:16 (so 𝔗 Gn 18:22 +).

### Jastrow 1903

כְּעַן: now [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b7_5df/#m3)

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**The whole Jastrow entry:** (contr. of כְּעִידָּן, v. כְּדוּן) now. Targ. O. Num. XXIV, 4; 6 (Y. כדון, h. text עתה). Targ. II Sam. III, 8 מכ׳ (h. text היום); a. fr.—Cant. R. to I, 1 הוינה כד הוינא ברם כ׳ וכ׳ I was (king) when I was, but now I am no more.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּעַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e2_5b7_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.21/)

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כְּעַן֙ שִׂ֣ימוּ טְּעֵ֔םלְבַטָּלָ֖א גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א אִלֵּ֑ךְ וְקִרְיְתָ֥א דָךְ֙ לָ֣א תִתְבְּנֵ֔א עַד־מִנִּ֖י טַעְמָ֥א יִתְּשָֽׂם׃

*Word for word:* now make a.decree to make.to.cease the men these and the city this not it.will.be.built until from me the decree it.will.be.made

*JPS 1917:* Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until a decree shall be made by me.

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[Daniel 6:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.9/)

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כְּעַ֣ן מַלְכָּ֔א תְּקִ֥ים אֱסָרָ֖א וְתִרְשֻׁ֣ם כְּתָבָ֑א דִּ֣י לָ֧א לְהַשְׁנָיָ֛ה כְּדָת־מָדַ֥י וּפָרַ֖ס דִּי־לָ֥א תֶעְדֵּֽא׃

*Word for word:* now O king you.will.establish the prohibition and you.will.sign the writing that not to change according to.the.law of.\[the\].Medes and.\[the\] Persians which not it.will.pass.away

*JPS 1917:* Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.'

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