כְּעֶ֫נֶת S 3706 TWOT 2796 and ( Ezr 4:17 ) contr. כְּעֶת adv. now ( f. of כְּעַן ; so
first SS Torrey JBL 16 (1897), 166 ff. ; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת
Cowley PSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312 ( = RÉS 4924 = 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: Ezr 4:10 ( del. , as introduced by error from end of v 1 1), v 11 (joining to v 1 2) and now , let it be known, etc., v 17 f. and now , the letter which, etc., 7:12 f. and now , I
make a decree, etc. ( cf. וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2 K 5:6 ; 10:2 , and καὶ νῦν 2
Macc. 1:6 ).
ענה
(
√ of foll.;
v. BH
III.
ענה
, עָנָו
, עָנִי
)
.
[ עֲנָי K § 57 a ) β ) St r, or עֲנֵא cf. Buh l, M] adj. poor, needy ; pl. abs. עֲנָיִ֑ן
(Baer Gi K l.c.), or עֲנָ֑יִן ( van d. H. Buhl M 77 ; cf. D § 39, 1 ) as n. Dn 4:24 the poor . Or
[
עֲנֵה
]; v. Pognon Inscr. Sém
. 173 A 1.
ענן
(
√ of following;
v. BH
ענז
, עֵז
)
.
[
עֵז
S
5795, 5796
TWOT
1654a, 2920a
GK
6436
]
n.
[
f.
]
(she-)goat
;
pl.
עִזִּין
Ezr 6:1
7.
[ עֲנָן S 6050 TWOT 2921 K § 57 a ) α ) ] n. [ m. ] cloud ( v. BH I. ענן ) ;pl. cstr. עֲנָנֵי שְׁמַיָּא Dn 7:1 3.
contr. contract, contracted. SS C. Siegfried u. B. Stade, Hebräisches Wörterbuch. Cowley A. E. Cowley.
M
(in BAram. Appendix) K. Marti, Gram. d. bibl. Aram.
MT
Masoretic Text.
del.
dele,
strike out (also
delet, delent
).
Or C. von Orelli.
II.