Word study

Fact

2 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “fact”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “fact” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • הִנֵּה hinnêhlo! behold!translated this way 2 times of its 689 uses · Strong’s H2009Interjection  ·  Translated: Behold 175, Look 83, saw 47, indeed 36

    Judges 21:8 So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

    Ruth 3:2 Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

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  • כִּי kîburning, brandingtranslated this way 2 times of its 3,991 uses · Strong’s H3588Conjunction  ·  Translated: for 1,770, that 572, because 523, when 194Full study and all 3,583 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • γάρ gárfortranslated this way 5 times of its 756 uses · Strong’s G1063Conjunction  ·  Translated: for 633, because 61, Indeed 20, fact 5

    Luke 20:36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are like the angels. And since they are sons of the resurrection, they are sons of God.

    John 4:18 In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

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  • ἀλλά allábut, excepttranslated this way 4 times of its 565 uses · Strong’s G235Conjunction  ·  Translated: but 433, Instead 49, However 9, contrary 8

    John 10:5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”

    1 Corinthians 3:2 I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

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  • ὅτι hótithat, since, becausetranslated this way 3 times of its 935 uses · Strong’s G3754Conjunction  ·  Translated: that 520, because 207, for 162, since 8

    Mark 8:16 So they began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

    Acts 13:34 In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.