e.da.yin marks a temporal step in a narrative, introducing what follows in an event sequence.

The attested adverb marks movement to a subsequent moment or action within narrative and reported events: it introduces responses, commands, outcomes, and later actions in the same sequence.

1. Transition to the next event or action · dominant

   The adverb introduces the next narrated development: in Daniel 2:19 the APB renders the mystery’s revelation to Daniel and Daniel’s blessing of God as successive actions, with the form occurring twice. In Daniel 3:13 it precedes Nebuchadnezzar’s command and again the men’s being brought before him; in Ezra 4:23 it introduces the opponents’ hurried trip to Jerusalem and their forced cessation of the work.

   Daniel 2:19Daniel 3:13Daniel 5:17Daniel 6:16Ezra 4:23Ezra 5:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the sequential movement with “Then,” as in Daniel 3:13, Daniel 6:16, and Ezra 5:2. Because it is a whole-verse translation text, its English sequencing should be read as confirmation of the clause’s progression rather than as a fixed rendering in every occurrence.