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Ezra 4:21

“Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

כְּעַןkᵉʻan · keh-an'
H3705 · Aramaic

Definition: now
Derivation: (Aramaic) probably from H3652 (כֵּן);
KJV renderings: now.
Grammar: כְּעַן֙ — adverb
Code AD
Usage: Occurs 13 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ezra 4:13 Ezra 4:14 Ezra 5:16 Ezra 5:17 Ezra 6:6

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כְּעַן here.

Verse 20 Verse 22

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.