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Hebrew conj · H638

אַף

aphaf

also

4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼaph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H638is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H638

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

The King James renders it: also.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

aph is rendered "also". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:10We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

Ezra 5:10וְאַ֧ף

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Three of the word's four uses are in Ezra.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and also4

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אַףaphface: angerUses276
אַףaphalsoUses134

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 4, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וְ֠אַף2
  • וְאַ֤ף1
  • וְאַ֧ף1

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + adverb4AC/D

Ezra

three uses
  • We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

    Ezra 5:10

    • וְאַ֧ףveafconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and also
  • He also removed from the temple of Babylon the gold and silver articles belonging to the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken and carried there from the temple in Jerusalem. King Cyrus gave these articles to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor

    Ezra 5:14

    • וְ֠אַףveafconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and also
  • Furthermore, the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and carried to Babylon, must also be returned to the temple in Jerusalem and deposited in the house of God.

    Ezra 6:5

    • וְ֠אַףveafconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and also

Daniel

one use
  • My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”

    Daniel 6:22

    • וְאַ֤ףveafconjunction (“and”) + adverbtagged: and also

The letters

Gematria 81· 801 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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