אַף

ʼaph · Hebrew · Strong's H637 · 134 occurrences

The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “but”

What it means

meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though

a primitive particle;

How the KJV renders it

also, and furthermore, yet, but, even, rather than, moreover, with, yea

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“but”

also renders plḗn (G4133), mónon (G3440), ektós (G1622), ʼăbâl (H61), ʼak (H389), ʼâkên (H403), ʼepheç (H657), bᵉram (H1297), gam (H1571), dîy (H1768), lâhên (H3861), ʻôwd (H5750), raq (H7535)

“with”

also renders symphōnéō (G4856), syntréchō (G4936), parístēmi (G3936), paralambánō (G3880), háma (G260), tís (G5101), proskarteréō (G4342), bûwsh (H954), gam (H1571), dâdâh (H1718), ʻim (H5974), sâbaʻ (H7646)

“yet”

also renders oukéti (G3765), éti (G2089), akmḗn (G188), oudépō (G3764), ʼâz (H227), ʼak (H389), bᵉram (H1297), ʻăden (H5728), raq (H7535)

“even”

also renders hoútō (G3779), katháper (G2509), hṓsper (G5618), áchri (G891), opsé (G3796), ʼak (H389), gam (H1571), hêʼ (H1888), raq (H7535)

“also”

also renders éti (G2089), háma (G260), ʼîysh (H376), ʼak (H389), ʼaph (H638), gam (H1571), kôh (H3541)

“moreover”

also renders loipón (G3063), gam (H1571)

“yea”

also renders gam (H1571)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

134 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.

1 Chronicles 8:32 · HC/D

and Mikloth, who became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their families in Jerusalem, near their relatives.

1 Chronicles 9:38 · HC/D

Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their relatives in Jerusalem, near their relatives.

1 Chronicles 16:30 · HTa

Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.

1 Kings 8:27 · HTa

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

1 Samuel 2:7 · HTa

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

1 Samuel 14:30 · HTa

How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”

1 Samuel 21:5 HC/D1 Samuel 23:3 HC/D2 Chronicles 6:18 HTa2 Chronicles 12:5 HC/D2 Chronicles 32:15 HTa2 Kings 2:14 HTa2 Kings 5:13 HC/D2 Samuel 4:11 HTa2 Samuel 16:11 HC/D2 Samuel 20:14 HTaAmos 2:11 HTi/TaDeuteronomy 2:11 HTaDeuteronomy 2:20 HTaDeuteronomy 15:17 HC/DDeuteronomy 31:27 HC/DDeuteronomy 33:3 HTaDeuteronomy 33:20 HTaDeuteronomy 33:28 HTaEcclesiastes 2:9 HTaEsther 5:12 HTaEzekiel 14:21 HTaEzekiel 15:5 HTaEzekiel 23:40 HC/DGenesis 3:1 HTaGenesis 18:13 HTi/DGenesis 18:23 HTi/DGenesis 18:24 HTi/DGenesis 40:16 HTaHabakkuk 2:5 HC/DHabakkuk 2:15 HC/DIsaiah 26:8 HTaIsaiah 26:9 HTaIsaiah 26:11 HTaIsaiah 33:2 HTaIsaiah 35:2 HTaIsaiah 40:24 HTaIsaiah 41:10 HTaIsaiah 41:23 HTaIsaiah 41:26 HTaIsaiah 42:13 HTaIsaiah 43:7 HTaIsaiah 43:19 HTaIsaiah 44:15 HTaIsaiah 44:16 HTaIsaiah 44:19 HC/DIsaiah 45:21 HTaIsaiah 46:6 HTaIsaiah 46:7 HTaIsaiah 46:11 HTaIsaiah 48:12 HTaIsaiah 48:13 HTaIsaiah 48:15 HTaJudges 5:29 HTaJob 4:19 HTa

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