Definition

not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing

Etymology

a negative particle (akin to H3808 (לֹא));

Where the KJV renders it

• nay
• neither
• never
• no
• nor
• not
• nothing (worth)
• rather than

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.