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רַק
raq · Hebrew · Strong's H7535 · 109 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “but”
What it means
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
the same as H7534 (רַק) as a noun;
How the KJV renders it
but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, surely, yet, in any wise
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), ʼaph (H637), ʼepheç (H657), bᵉram (H1297), gam (H1571), dîy (H1768), lâhên (H3861), ʻôwd (H5750)“save”
also renders
plḗn (G4133), sōtēría (G4991), phylássō (G5442), diasṓzō (G1295), sṓzō (G4982), ʼak (H389), ʼepheç (H657), yâshaʻ (H3467), lâhên (H3861), mâlaṭ (H4422), nâtsal (H5337)“even”
also renders
hoútō (G3779), katháper (G2509), hṓsper (G5618), áchri (G891), opsé (G3796), ʼak (H389), ʼaph (H637), gam (H1571), hêʼ (H1888)“yet”
also renders
oukéti (G3765), éti (G2089), akmḗn (G188), oudépō (G3764), ʼâz (H227), ʼak (H389), ʼaph (H637), bᵉram (H1297), ʻăden (H5728)“nevertheless”
also renders
plḗn (G4133), ʼăbâl (H61), ʼak (H389), ʼâkên (H403), ʼepheç (H657), bᵉram (H1297)“except”
also renders
plḗn (G4133), parektós (G3924), ektós (G1622), lâhên (H3861)“notwithstanding”
also renders
plḗn (G4133), ʼak (H389)Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
109 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Kings 3:2 · HTa
However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
1 Kings 3:3 · HTa
Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
1 Kings 8:9 · HTa
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:19 · HTa
Nevertheless, you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’
1 Kings 8:25 · HTa
Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’
1 Kings 11:13 · HTa
However, I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
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