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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