STRONGS H3706:
Abbreviations
Biblical Aramaic
†
כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (
Ezra 4:17) contracted
כְּעֶת adverb now (feminine of
כְּעַן; so first SS Torrey
JBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic
כענת Cowley
PSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 (= RES
492-4 = S-C
M, N, O);
וכ׳ formerly taken to mean
and so forth); — always
וּכ׳, and always in a letter, introducing the business of the letter, and to be connected with what follows, not, as MT, with what precedes:
Ezra 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of
Ezra 4:11),
Ezra 4:11 (joining to
Ezra 4:12)
and now, let it be known, etc.,
Ezra 4:17f.
and now, the letter which, etc.,
Ezra 7:12f.
and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare
וְעַתָּה similarly in letters
2 Kings 5:6;
2 Kings 10:2, and
καὶ νῦν2 Macc 1:6).
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2 Kings
5:6; 10:2
Ezra
4:10; 4:11; 4:11; 4:12; 4:17; 4:17; 7:12