Words the Bible translates as if
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kiכִּיwhen, if: it frames the circumstance or the case the main statement answers to
+3 more meanings
- because, for: it attaches the reason or the grounds behind what has just been said
- that: it introduces the content of what someone sees, knows, hears, or says
- but rather, except, only: after a denial, it names what holds instead
- eanἐάνifnot studied yet
- eiεἰifnot studied yet
- imאִםif: it sets a condition, so that what follows depends on whether that thing is so
+3 more meanings
- in an oath: a flat denial, or, when the word for "not" is added, a flat promise
- or, whether: it opens the second half of a two way question, or names the thing being asked about
- except, but rather: joined to the word for "that", it carves out the one case a denial does not cover
- anἄνifnot studied yet
- luלוּifnot studied yet
- henהֵןifnot studied yet
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