1) of place: from where, from what condition
2) of origin or source: from what author or giver
3) of cause: how is that?, how can that be?
Part of Speech: adverb
G4159
From the base of G4213 with enclitic adverb of origin; from which (as interrogitive) or what (as relative) place, state, source or cause: - whence.
Gloss | Section |
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a whence | 84.6 |
c why | 89.38 |
b how | 89.86 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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