Definition

nay, i.e. (softened) if

Etymology

probably from H408 (אַל);

Word family

• אַל ʼal

How the KJV renders it

• but if
• yea though

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.