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Ezra 5:17

“Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

כְּעַןkᵉʻan · keh-an'
H3705 · Aramaic

Definition: now
Derivation: (Aramaic) probably from H3652 (כֵּן);
KJV renderings: now.
Grammar: וּ — conjunction
כְעַ֞ן — adverb
Code AC/D
Usage: Occurs 13 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ezra 4:13 Ezra 4:14 Ezra 4:21 Ezra 5:16 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 16

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.