570. emesh
Strong's Concordance
emesh: yesterday
Original Word: אָ֫מֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Adverb
Transliteration: emesh
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-mesh)
Short Definition: yesterday
Brown-Driver-Briggs
אֶ֫מֶשׁ adverb 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; Genesis 31:29,42 (אָ֑מֶשׁ); = recently 2 Kings 9:26. — Job 30:3 שׁוֺאָה ׳א is difficult & uncertain Thes MV and others darkness, gloom of wasteness, so RV, but dubious, compare Di; G. Hoffm. reads ׳אֵם שׁ = the mother of (all) the ruined ( said of the desert).

אֱמֶת אֲמִתַּי see אמן.

אַמְתַּ֫חַת see מתח.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
former time, yesterday night

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

Forms and Transliterations
אֶ֖מֶשׁ אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙ אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ אֶ֣מֶשׁ ׀ אָֽמֶשׁ׃ אמש אמש׃ ’ā·meš ’āmeš ’e·meš ’emeš Amesh Emesh
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Strong's Hebrew 570
5 Occurrences


’ā·meš — 1 Occ.
’e·meš — 4 Occ.

Genesis 19:34
HEB: הֵן־ שָׁכַ֥בְתִּי אֶ֖מֶשׁ אֶת־ אָבִ֑י
NAS: I lay last night with my father;
KJV: Behold, I lay yesternight with my father:
INT: Behold lay last with my father

Genesis 31:29
HEB: וֵֽאלֹהֵ֨י אֲבִיכֶ֜ם אֶ֣מֶשׁ ׀ אָמַ֧ר אֵלַ֣י
NAS: spoke to me last night, saying,
KJV: spake unto me yesternight, saying,
INT: the God of your father last spoke about

Genesis 31:42
HEB: אֱלֹהִ֖ים וַיּ֥וֹכַח אָֽמֶשׁ׃
NAS: so He rendered judgment last night.
KJV: and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
INT: God rendered last

2 Kings 9:26
HEB: בָנָ֜יו רָאִ֤יתִי אֶ֙מֶשׁ֙ נְאֻם־ יְהוָ֔ה
NAS: I have seen yesterday the blood
KJV: Surely I have seen yesterday the blood
INT: of his sons have seen yesterday saith the LORD

Job 30:3
HEB: הַֽעֹרְקִ֥ים צִיָּ֑ה אֶ֝֗מֶשׁ שׁוֹאָ֥ה וּמְשֹׁאָֽה׃
NAS: the dry ground by night in waste
KJV: into the wilderness in former time desolate
INT: gnaw the dry night desolate and desolation

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