Definition

a particle of emphasis or explicitness; now, then, etc.

Etymology

probably akin to G1161 (δέ);

Where the KJV renders it

• also
• and
• doubtless
• now
• therefore

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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