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Strong's #5732 - עִדָּן
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- time
- time (of duration)
- year
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1367) to (אהת AhT) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Time: A period of time as a moment or season.
A) to (אהת AhT) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Time
Nf ) to (אהת AhT) - Time: KJV (296): time, season, when, always - Strongs: H6256 (עֵת)
fm) ito (אהתי AhTY) - Ready: KJV (1): fit - Strongs: H6261 (עִתִּי)
H) eto (אהתה AhTH) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Now: The present time.
Nm) eto (אהתה AhTH) - Now: KJV (9): now, whereas, henceforth, straightway - Strongs: H6258 (עַתָּה)
sm) nito (אהתינ AhTYN) - Now: [Aramaic only] [df: Nyda]KJV (57): then, now, time - Strongs: H116 (אֱדַיִן)
J) tfo (אהות AhWT) AC: Speak CO: ? AB: ?: [Unknown connection to root;]
V) tfo (אהות AhWT) - Speak: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) speak - Strongs: H5790 (עוּת)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, perhaps loan-word from Assyrian adannu, fixed, appointed, or definite, time; [Arabic 
probably Aramaic loan-word, Schw ZMG liii (1899), 197]); — absolute ׳ע Daniel 7:12 +; emphatic עִדָּנָא Daniel 2:8 +; plural absolute עִדָּנִין Daniel 4:13 +, emphatic עִדָּנַיָּא Daniel 2:21; — 1 in General, time, as duration Daniel 2:8; Daniel 7:12; involving specific conditions Daniel 2:9,21; (point of) time Daniel 3:5,15.
2 definite time, = year (as modern Greek χρόνος, see EASophocles1173): ׳שִׁבְעָה ע = seven years, Daniel 4:13; Daniel 4:20; Daniel 4:22; Daniel 4:29; עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן Daniel 7:25 (i.e. 3 2-Janyears, see Dr; perhaps read dual for plural, compare Bev Gunk Schöpf. 201).
עִדָּן m. Chald.
(1) time; Syriac ܥܶܕܳܢ, Arabic عَدَّانُ id.; from the root עָדַד Daniel 2:8, seq.; 3:5, 15 7:12.
(2). specially a year, Daniel 4:13, 20, 22, 29 7:25, עַד־עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְּלַג עִדָּן “during a year, (two) years, and the half of a year;” i.e. during three years and a half; comp. Josephus, Bellum Jud. i. 1. See מוֹעֵד No. 2, and יָמִים No. 4.
