Strong’s H575 · Hebrew

אָן
ʼân
awn

Definition

where?; hence, whither?, when?; also hither and thither

Etymology

or אָנָה; contracted from H370 (אַיִן);

Where the KJV renders it

  • any (no) whither
  • now
  • where
  • whither(-soever)

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

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