Definition

not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles

Etymology

or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle;

Where the KJV renders it

• before
• or else
• ere
• except
• ig(-norant)
• much
• less
• nay
• neither
• never
• no((-ne)
• -r
• (-thing))
• ( as though
• (can-)
• for) not (out of)
• of nought
• otherwise
• out of
• surely
• as truly as
• of a truth
• verily
• for want
• whether
• 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

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