Definition

thus (only in the formula 'and so forth')

Etymology

(Aramaic) or כְּעֶת; (Aramaic), feminine of H3705 (כְּעַן);

Where the KJV renders it

• at such a time

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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