Lexical Summary iddan: time Original Word: עִדָּןTransliteration: iddan Phonetic Spelling: (id-dawn') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: time Meaning: a set time, technically, a year Strong's Concordance time (Aramaic) from a root corresponding to that of ed; a set time; technically, a year -- time. see HEBREW ed Brown-Driver-Briggs H5732. iddan עִדָּן noun masculineDaniel 2:9 time (ᵑ7 id., Syriac , perhaps loan-word from Assyrian adannu, fixed, appointed, or definite, time; [Arabic probably Aramaic loan-word, SchwZMG liii (1899), 197]); — absolute ׳ע 7:12 +; emphatic עִדָּנָא 2:8 +; plural absolute עִדָּנִין 4:13 +, emphatic עִדָּנַיָּא 2:21; — 1 in General, time, as duration Daniel 2:8; 7:12; involving specific conditions 2:9, 21; (point of) time 3:5, 15. 2 definite time, = year (as modern Greek χρόνος, see EASophocles1173): ע ׳שִׁבְעָה = seven years, Daniel 4:13; 4:20; 4:22; 4:29; עִדָּן וּפְלַג וְעִדָּנִין עִדָּן 7:25 (i.e. 3 2-Janyears, see Dr; perhaps read dual for plural, compare Bev GunkSchöpf. 201). |
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