Definition

if not

Etymology

from G1487 (εἰ) and G3361 (μή);

Where the KJV renders it

• but
• except (that)
• if not
• more than
• save (only) that
• saving
• till

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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