STRONGS NUMBER H3706

H3706. keeneth

or keeth כְּעֶ֫נֶת‎ and (Ezra 4:17) contracted כְּעֶת‎ adverb now (feminine of כְּעַן‎; so first SS Torrey^{JBL 16 (1897), 166 ff.}; now confirmed by Egyptian Aramaic כענת‎ Cowley^{PSBA xxv. 264, 311, 312} ( = RES^492-4 = 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 ᵑ0‎, with what precedes: 4:10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of 4:11), 4:11 (joining to 4:12) and now, let it be known, etc., 4:17f. and now, the letter which, etc., 7:12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare וְעַתָּה‎ similarly in letters 2 Kings 5:6; 10:2, and καὶ νῦν2Macc 1:6).