Strong’s H3860 · Hebrew

לָהֵן
lâhên
law-hane'

Definition

popularly for if; hence, therefore

Etymology

from the prepositional prefix meaning to or for and H2005 (הֵן);

Where the KJV renders it

  • for them (by mistake for prepositional suffix)

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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