Definition

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

Etymology

by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather;

Where the KJV renders it

• again
• alike
• also
• (so much) as (soon)
• both (so)...and
• but
• either...or
• even
• for all
• (in) likewise (manner)
• moreover
• nay...neither
• one
• then(-refore)
• though
• what
• 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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