International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Often

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Often


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of´'n (πυκνός, puknós, “thick,” “close”): An archaic usage for “frequent”: “Thine often infirmities” (); 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).