Definition

{not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no;}

Etymology

(Aramaic) or לָה; (Aramaic) (Daniel 4:32), corresponding to H3808 (לֹא)

Where the KJV renders it

• or even
• neither
• no(-ne
• -r)
• (can-) not
• as nothing
• without

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.