STRONGS NUMBER H570


Word Summary
emesh: yesterday
Original Word: אֶמֶשׁ
Transliteration: emesh
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-mesh)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: yesterday
Meaning: yesterday, last night
Strong's Concordance
former time, yesterday night

Time past, i.e. Yesterday or last night -- former time, yesterday(-night)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H570. emesh

אֶ֫מֶשׁadverb 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; 31:29, 42 (אָ֑מֶשׁ‎); = recently 2 Kings 9:26. — Job 30:3 ׳א שׁוֺאָה‎ is difficult & uncertain Thes MV and others darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV, but dubious, compare Di; G. Hoffm. reads שׁ ׳אֵם‎ = the mother of (all) the ruined ( said of the desert).

אֲמִתַּי אֱמֶת‎ see אמן‎.

אַמְתַּ֫חַת‎ see מתח‎.