כְּעֶנֶת

כְּעֶ֫נֶת and (Ezr 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: Ezr 4,10 (strike out, as introduced by error from end of vEzr 4,11), vEzr 4,11 (joining to vEzr 4,12) and now, let it be known, etc., vEzr 4,17f. and now, the letter which, etc., Ezr 7,12f. and now, I make a decree, etc. (compare וְעַתָּה similarly in letters 2 Kong 5,6; 2 Kong 10,2, and καὶ νῦν 2 Macc 1:6).