| Translation | Verse | Text |
| King James | Mt 24:21 | For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. |
| Word | American Tract Society - Definition |
| TIME | Besides the ordinary uses of this word, the Bible sometimes employs it to denote a year, as in Da 4:16; or a prophetic year, consisting of three hundred and sixty natural year, a day being taken for a year. Thus in Da 7:25 12:7, the phrase "a time, times, and the dividing of a time" is supposed to mean three and a half prophetic years, or 1,260 natural years. This period is elsewhere paralleled by the expression, "forty-two months," each month including thirty years, Re 11:2-3 12:6,14 13:5. |