Words the Bible translates as surely
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.
- kiכִּיbecause, for: it attaches the reason or the grounds behind what has just been said
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- 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
- but rather, except, only: after a denial, it names what holds instead
- 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
- 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
- alēthōsἀληθῶςtruly, really: marking that something genuinely matches the truth or the facts
- akhenאָכֵןsurelynot studied yet
- pantōsπάντωςsurelynot studied yet
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