Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
except
Usage: 1) therefore 2) except, but 2a) except (with negative) 2b) however, but
Lahen means “except” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G3861 — paradoxos (“strange”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H3861 לָהֵן (lawhen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. lawhen (law-hane') conj. 1. therefore 2. also except It has 11 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include except, but, therefore, save, and wherefore. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
lawhen (law-hane') conj. 1. therefore 2. also except [(Aramaic) corresponding to H3860] KJV: but, except, save, therefore, wherefore. Root(s): H3860
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except
Usage: 1) therefore 2) except, but 2a) except (with negative) 2b) however, but
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render lawhen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3861.
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3861, grouped by book.
Lahen (Strong's H3861) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "except". lawhen (law-hane') conj. 1. therefore 2. also except
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H3861 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3861 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as except, but, therefore, save, and wherefore. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.