עת

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʕeːθ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)et/

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• Homophone: עֵט‎ (et)

עֵת • (et) f (plural indefinite עיתים / עִתִּים‎, singular construct עֵת־‎, plural construct עיתי / עִתֵּי־‎) [pattern: קֵטֶל]

1. A time.
   • Tanack, Ecclesiastes 3:1–2, with translation of the King James Version:

     ‏לַכֹּל זְמָן וְעֵת לְכָל־חֵפֶץ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם׃ עֵת לָלֶדֶת וְעֵת לָמוּת עֵת לָטַעַת וְעֵת לַעֲקוֹר נָטוּעַ׃‎‎

     lakól z'mán v'ét l'khól-khéfets tákhat hashamáyim: et lalédet v'ét lamút et latá'at v'ét la'akór natúa:

     To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted; […]

2. A period of time, a season, an era.

• In current usage, the plural forms are commonly written either with or without a yud in the first syllable: both עיתים and עתים are common. In historical usage, only עתים is common.

• כָּעֵת‎ (ka'ét)
• כְּתַב עֵת‎ (k'táv 'ét)
• לעיתים / לְעִתִּים‎ (le'itím, “sometimes”)
• לְעֵת עַתָּה‎ (l'et 'atá)
• מֵעֵת לְעֵת‎ (me'et l'et)
• עיתון / עִתּוֹן‎ ('itón, “newspaper”)

• “עֵת” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שׁוֹשָׁן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ‎ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם)‎ (1984), →ISBN, volume 2 of 3 (ל to צ), →ISBN, page 1030.