אֶמֶשׁʼemesh
yesterday (Job 30:3; Genesis 19:34; Genesis 31:29; Genesis 31:42; 2 Kings 9:26)
Pronunciation: eh'-mesh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H570
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 19:34 The next morning the older daughter said to her younger sister, “I had sex with our father last night. Let’s get him drunk with wine again tonight, and you go in and have sex with him. That way we will preserve our family line through our father.”
- Genesis 31:29 I could destroy you, but the God of your father appeared to me last night and warned me, ‘Leave Jacob alone!’
- Genesis 31:42 In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”
- 2 Kings 9:26 ‘I solemnly swear that I will repay him here on this plot of land, says the Lord, for the murder of Naboth and his sons that I saw yesterday.’ So throw him out on Naboth’s property, just as the Lord said.”
- Job 30:3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).