to appoint
za.man is used of matters set or arranged for designated occasions, including appearances and offerings.
The attested forms occur in contexts of matters set for specified occasions: an appearance before local elders and judges in Ezra 10:14, firstfruits brought year by year in Nehemiah 10:35, and the wood offering at appointed times in Nehemiah 13:31.
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Set or arranged for specified occasions · dominant
All three occurrences are Pual passive participles. In Ezra 10:14 the form occurs in the arrangement for those who had married foreign women to appear with each city's elders and judges; the APB renders the clause with “at the appointed times.” In Nehemiah 10:35 it stands in the commitment to bring firstfruits year by year, while Nehemiah 13:31 places the feminine plural form with the wood offering; the APB again says “at the appointed times.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the surrounding clauses with “at the appointed times” in Ezra 10:14 and Nehemiah 13:31. In Nehemiah 10:35 it presents the firstfruits as brought “year by year”; Its specific rendering of the form there is not certain.