Raw Strong's Lookups Data¶

H5732 - iddan (עִדָּן) — Aramaic "time/year"¶

Transliteration: iddân
POS: masculine noun
BLB Count: 13 occurrences
BDB Definition: "a set time; technically, a year"
BDB Detail: "2. definite time, = year (as modern Greek χρόνος): שִׁבְעָה ע׳ = seven years, Daniel 4:13; 4:20; 4:22; 4:29; עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן Daniel 7:25 (i.e. 3 1/2 years)"
Translations: times (4), the time (2), at (2), time (2), the times (1), and time (1), a time (1), and times (1), of time (1)
Total: 15 occurrences, 9 unique translations
KEY FINDING: BDB explicitly defines iddan as "technically a year" and interprets Dan 7:25 as "3 1/2 years"

203 total occurrences, 37 unique translations
Top: "in the morning" (79), "the morning" (43), "morning" (16), "every morning" (14)
Translated as "days" once — in Dan 8:14 (KJV renders "erev boqer" as "days")

Transliteration: shâbûwa
POS: masculine noun
BLB Count: 20 occurrences
Definition: "properly, passive participle of as a denominative of; literally, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years)"
24 total occurrences, 10 unique translations
Top: "weeks" (9), "of weeks" (4), "week" (3)
KEY: Definition explicitly notes "specifically, of years" — can mean week-of-years
Key verses: Gen 29:27,28 (Laban's "week" = 7 years); Dan 9:24,25,26,27; Dan 10:2,3

Transliteration: châthak
POS: verb
BLB Count: 1 occurrence — HAPAX LEGOMENON
Definition: "a primitive root; properly, to cut off, i.e. (figuratively) to decree: determine"
ONLY occurrence: Dan 9:24 — "Seventy weeks are determined [nechtak]"
Root meaning "to cut off" — Niphal passive: "are cut off"
KJV translates as "determined" but root etymology = "cut off"
This is critical for the HIST argument that 70 weeks are "cut off from" a larger period (2300 days)

25 total occurrences, 16 unique translations
Top: "and sealed" (6), "and seal" (3), "sealed up" (2), "seal" (2)
Definition: "to close up; especially to seal"
Key Daniel occurrences: Dan 9:24 ("to seal up the vision and prophecy"), Dan 12:4 ("seal the book"), Dan 12:9 ("words are closed up and sealed")

105 total occurrences, 12 unique translations
Top: "continually" (53), "the continual" (17), "continual" (9), "the daily" (7)
Definition: "from an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance; elliptically the regular (daily) sacrifice"
Daniel occurrences: Dan 8:11,12,13; 11:31; 12:11 — "the daily [sacrifice]" (tamid)
The tamid is the sacrifice measured by the 2300 erev-boqer in Dan 8:14

229 total occurrences, 68 unique translations
Top: "of the congregation" (146), "the feasts" (4), "in his appointed season" (3)
Definition: "an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year"
Daniel occurrences: Dan 8:19; 11:27,29,35; 12:7,7
Dan 12:7: "lemo'ed mo'adim vachetsi" = "for a time, times, and a half"

80 total occurrences, 22 unique translations
Top: "time" (37), "times" (7), "the time" (6), "season" (4)
Definition: "of uncertain affinity; an occasion, i.e. set or proper time"
KEY usage in Mark 1:15: "peplērotai ho kairos" = "the time has been fulfilled"
Used in Rev 12:14 for "time, times, half a time" — translating Daniel's iddan/mo'ed
LXX uses kairos to translate both H5732 (iddan) and H4150 (mo'ed)

26 total occurrences, 16 unique translations
Top: "be changed" (4), "was changed" (3), "changed" (3), "diverse" (3)
Key forms:
Haphel (causative): Dan 2:21 "He [God] changes (mehashneh) times and seasons"; Dan 7:25 "think to change (lehashnayyah) times and laws"
SAME Haphel form in both verses — the little horn usurps God's prerogative
BDB: "Haph. transitive change, alter, times, etc. Dan 2:21; 7:25"

78 total occurrences, 43 unique translations
Top: "in" (14), "latter" (11), "the end" (6), "last" (3)
Dan 8:19: be-acharit ha-za'am = "in the last end of the indignation"
Dan 8:17: le-et qets he-chazon = "for at the time of the end [shall be] the vision"