Words the Bible translates as only
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 11 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- kiכִּיbut rather, except, only: after a denial, it names what holds instead
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- 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
- when, if: it frames the circumstance or the case the main statement answers to
- plēnπλήνbut, nevertheless, only: a word that sets aside what comes before and points the reader to what really matters
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- except, besides, save: marks an exception, the one thing left out of an otherwise complete statement
- monosμόνοςalone or the only one: present or existing without others, or uniquely singled out to the exclusion of all else
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- only, merely, just: a limit or restriction placed on a predicate or clause
- akhאַךְa small focusing particle that singles out its clause, either to insist on it (surely, indeed) or to fence it off from what came before (only, but, however)
- raqרַקonly: a limiting word that narrows a statement down to one thing and shuts everything else out
- mononμόνονonlynot studied yet
- ephesאֶפֶסonly, however: a small word that limits or pushes back on what was just said
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- an outermost edge: the farthest point something reaches, above all the farthest reaches of the earth
- nothing, none at all: what has run out or ceased to be, and so no one and nothing besides
- monogenēsμονογενήςone and only: a parent's single or uniquely irreplaceable child, and so of Jesus the only Son of God.
- zulahזוּלָהexcept, besides: marking the one person or thing left out of what is said about all the rest
- yaḥidיָחִידonly, sole: the one and only of its kind, and so uniquely precious or utterly alone
- qatקָטonlynot studied yet
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