Definition

properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to stretch;

Where the KJV renders it

• alway(-s)
• continual (employment
• -ly)
• daily
• (n-)ever(-more)
• perpetual

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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