Definition

whenever (implying hypothesis or more or less uncertainty); also causatively (conjunctionally) inasmuch as

Etymology

from G3753 (ὅτε) and G302 (ἄν);

Where the KJV renders it

• as long (soon) as
• that
• + till
• when(-soever)
• while

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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