ke.an marks the present point of time or introduces what is to be said or done at that point.

The adverb marks the present point from which a speaker states a condition, request, command, or report; it can also locate an ongoing situation up to the present, as in the report that construction continued “until now” in Ezra 5:16.

1. The present point in statement or action · dominant

   In Daniel 3:15 the adverb stands with a conditional instruction concerning worship of the image, while Daniel 5:16 introduces the king's condition about reading the writing. In Ezra 4:21 it precedes a decree to stop the builders, and in Ezra 5:16 it marks the endpoint of the construction report; the APB renders that clause “from that time until now.”

   Daniel 3:15Daniel 5:12Daniel 5:16Ezra 4:21Ezra 5:16Ezra 6:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the adverb with “Now,” especially before requests, conditions, and commands, and renders the temporal clause in Ezra 5:16 as “until now.” In some verses, such as Daniel 4:34 and Daniel 6:9, its individual contribution is not separately clear in the translation.