H570 אֶמֶשׁ (ʼemesh) eh'-mesh

Hebrew

Adv (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

last night

Strong's Definition

yesterday or last night

Derivation: time past, i.e.

KJV Usage: former time, yesterday(-night)

TWOT Reference: 120

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) yesterday, last night

2) recently (fig.)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

אֶ֫מֶשׁ (e.mesh) — last night. 1) yesterday, last night 2) recently (fig.)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

אֶמֶשׁ (H0570)

noun m

Time

twilight, evening = time of day when it becomes dark

JOB 30:3

noun m

Temporal Referents

last night, yesterday = reference to the evening prior to the time of a discourse; sometimes extended to refer to the entire day

GEN 19:34 · GEN 31:29 · GEN 31:42 · 2KI 9:26

¹ JOB 30:3 MT HOTTP-B NIV GNT CEV "at night" | NJPS NJB "gloom" | RSV NRSV REB omit

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֶ֫מֶשׁ adv. yesterday base

Bible Occurrences (5)

19:34 31:29 31:42

9:26

30:3

Genesis 19:34

The next day the older [daughter] said to the younger, Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in [and] sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.

Genesis 31:29

I have power to do...... you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me..., Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.

Genesis 31:42

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.

2 Kings 9:26

As surely... as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD. Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up [and] throw him on the plot [of ground].

Job 30:3

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.