Definition

from which place or source or cause (adverb or conjunction)

Etymology

from G3739 (ὅς) with the directive enclitic of source;

Where the KJV renders it

• from thence
• (from) whence
• where(-by
• -fore
• -upon)

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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