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ˁdn, ˁdnˀ (ˁeddān, ˁeddānā) n.m. set time
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set time, proper time
Common Aramaic
TAD B2.11 R.13↗ כזי עדן יהוה‏ : when it is the proper time ; TAD A6.2 .3↗ עדן הוה אופשרה למע[בד‏ : the time has come to make the repairs ; P Job22:15↗ ܕܠܐ ܒܥܕܢܗܘܢ‏ ; BT Ber 43b(50)↗ ולא אמרן אלא דלא קבע ליה עידנא אבל קבע ליה עידנא אמרי לעידניה קא אזיל‏ : we only say (that) when he did not set a time for it [i.e. his study], but (if ) he had set a time for it, (people) say: "He is going to his (study) time" ; Rahmi 110.145:1 ↗ ˁdana ḏrahmia maṭia uˁdana ḏrab bauata mṭa : the time of prayers has come, and the time of the master of the prayers came
(1)
time set for study of Law
JBA
BT Ber 43b(50)↗ אבל קבע ליה עידנא אמרי לעידניה קא אזיל‏ : if he set a fixed time for study then they say he is going to his study time
2
moment
BADan, Qumran, Syr
Dan 3:15↗ בְעִדָּנָא דִּי־תִשְׁמְעוּן קָל קַרְנָא‏ : at the moment that you hear the sound of the horn ; QumNJ 2:4::19↗ ٠٠٠ ]עד עדן די יתבו‏ : until the time they dwell
(1)
בכל עדן : always
OfAEg-inf, OfAEg, OfAPer
TAD A3.7 R.1↗ אלהיא כל ישאלו שלמכי בכל עדן‏ ; TAD A4.8R.3↗ וחדה ושריר הוי בכל עדן‏ : be joyful and firmly established always ; TAD A6.1 .2↗ text not cited
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לעידן ד : by the time that
JBAg
3
time, as passing
BADan
Dan 2:8↗ מִן־יַצִּיב יָדַע אֲנָה דִּי עִדָּנָא אַנְתּוּן זָבְנִין‏ : for certain I know that you are buying time
(1)
time; age,era
BADan, Palmyrene
Dan 7:25↗ עַד־עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן‏ : until an age and ages and half an age
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period of time
Man
AM 119:4↗ ˁu haliplẖ ˁdana nišanunẖ mn baita lbaita : or if some time passes they should move him from house to house
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station (?)
Hatran
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in some JLAtg mss. regularly treated as feminine, presumably because of the gender of Hebrew עֵת , but even so when rendering Hebrew יוֹם
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For Hatran "station" see Aggoula, Syria 67(1990):416.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: LS2: 1073[511]DJPA: 402bDJBA: 851bJastrow: 1067Drower/Macuch: 341aJ. Payne-Smith: 401Levy Ch-W: 1:11Tal Sam: 624DNWSI: 830Qumran: 174

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