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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Prophecy: Too Often Interpreted by Imagination
• Professors: Too Often Deceptive
• Longings: of the Soul Often Painful
King James Dictionary
• Often
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Oft, Often, Oftener, Oftentimes, Oft-Times
Webster Dictionary
• Oftenness
• Often
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• Often
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Wettstein (Often Written Wetstein), Johann Rudolf (I)
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• ὁσάκις
• πολλάκις , ἐνίοτε
• πολύς
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• בְּדֵי דַּי, כְּדֵי, , מַדַּי
• לָמָּה מָה, מַי, שַׁלָּמָה, מַּזֶה, , מִזֶּה
• הַרְבָּה הַרְבֵּה, רָבָה, , רָבָה

of ´' n ( πυκνός , puknós , "thick," "close"): An archaic usage for "frequent": "Thine often infirmities" ( 1 Timothy 5:23 ); compare "by often rumination" (Shakespeare, As You Like It , IV, i, 18); "The often round" (Ben Jonson, The Forest , III); "Of wrench'd or broken limb - an often chance" (Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette ).