STRONGS NUMBER H3705


Word Summary
kean: now
Original Word: כְּעַן
Transliteration: kean
Phonetic Spelling: (keh-an')
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: now
Meaning: now
Strong's Concordance
now

(Aramaic) probably from ken; now -- now.

see HEBREW ken

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3705. kean

כְּעַןadverb now (so Egyptian Aramaic (CISii. 137 = CookeNo.73 RÉS:361 B S-CPap. C 5); ᵑ7‎, e.g. Numbers 22:4: עַן‎ probably a substantive from [עָנָה‎] the √ of עֵת‎, time; so כְּעַן‎ literally at (this) time = Hebrew עַתָּה‎: K§ 67, 4); — Daniel 2:23 הוֺדַעְתַּנִי וּכְעַן‎, 3:15; 4:34; 5:12, 15, 16; 6:9; Ezra 4:13-14, 21; 5:17; 6:6; עַדכְּֿעַןuntil now 5:16 (so ᵑ7Genesis 18:22 +).