Strong’s H637 · Hebrew

אַף
ʼaph
af

Definition

meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though

Etymology

a primitive particle;

Where the KJV renders it

  • also
  • although
  • and (furthermore
  • yet)
  • but
  • even
  • how much less (more
  • rather than)
  • moreover
  • with
  • yea

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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