H0570

אֶ֫מֶשׁ

e.meshH:Adv

last night

1) yesterday, last night 2) recently (fig.)

The KJV translates H0570 in the following manner:

yesternight (6x), time (2x), yesterday (2x)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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 Gen 19:34; Gen 31:29; Gen 31:42 (אָ֑מֶשׁ); = recently 2Kgs 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.


3 occurrences

Genesis (1), II Kings (1), Job (1)