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2 Kings 23:24
“Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1571 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- Derivation
- by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather;
- KJV renderings
- again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- גַ֣ם — particle (affirmation)
- Usage
- Occurs 769 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:6Genesis 3:22Genesis 4:4Genesis 4:22Genesis 4:26
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גַּם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.