Definition

thereupon, i.e. since (of time or cause)

Etymology

from G1909 (ἐπί) and G1487 (εἰ);

Where the KJV renders it

• because
• else
• for that (then
• -asmuch as)
• otherwise
• seeing that
• since
• when

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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