Hence
Bible Usage:
- hence used 30 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 37:17
- Last Reference: James 4:1
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1980 Used 1 time
- H3318 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 14 times
- G1782 Used 9 times
- G3112 Used 1 time
- G5025 Used 1 time
- G5217 Used 1 time
HENCE, adverb hens.
1. From this place.
Arise, let us go hence John 14:31.
I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles. Acts 22:21.
2. From this time; in the future; as a week hence; a year hence
3. From this cause or reason, noting a consequence, inference or deduction from something just before stated.
HENCE perhaps it is, that Solomon calls the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom.
It sometimes denotes an inference or consequence, resulting from something that follows.
Whence come wars and fightings among you?
Come they not hence even from your lusts--James 4:1.
4. From this source or original.
All other faces borrowed hence--
HENCE signifies from this, and from before hence is not strictly correct. But from hence is so well established by custom, that it may not be practicable to correct the use of the phrase.
HENCE is used elliptically and imperatively, for go hence; depart hence; away; be gone.
HENCE, with your little ones.
HENCE, as a verb, to send off, as used by Sidney, is improper.
HENCEFORTH, adverb hens'forth. From this time forward.
I never from thy side henceforth will stray.
HENCEFORWARD, adverb hensfor'ward. From this time forward; henceforth.