Therefore
לָהֵןStrong’s H3860lahen (la-hen)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Lahen is the Hebrew word usually translated “therefore”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.”
Meaning
- Therefore
How it's translated
- therefore 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ruth 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
לָהֵן lahen · therefore
therefore Aramaic of la.hen (לָהֵן "therefore" H3860)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “therefore” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THEREFORE, adverb
ther'fore. [there and for.]
- For that; for that or this reason, referring to something previously stated.“I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come” Luke 14:20
- Consequently.
- In return or recompense for this or that.“What shall we have therefore?” Matthew 19:27
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.