Strong’s G3689 · Greek

ὄντως
óntōs

Definition

really

Etymology

adverb of the oblique cases of G5607 (ὤν);

Where the KJV renders it

  • certainly
  • clean
  • indeed
  • of a truth
  • verily

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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