Definition

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)

Etymology

from H3559 (כּוּן);

Where the KJV renders it

• after that (this
• -ward
• -wards)
• as... as
• (for-) asmuch as yet
• be (for which) cause
• following
• howbeit
• in (the) like (manner
• -wise)
• the more
• right
• (even) so
• state
• straightway
• such (thing)
• surely
• there (where) -fore
• this
• thus
• true
• well
• you

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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