then
az marks a subsequent time or action, and can introduce the result of a stated condition.
The adverb most often moves a narrative to its next action or event. It also marks what follows a condition and, in a smaller group of clauses, locates people or events at a specified time.
Senses in use
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Narrative movement to the next event · dominant
The adverb introduces the next narrated action after the preceding setting or event. In Deuteronomy 4:41 the APB renders Moses' setting apart of three cities with “Then,” and in 1 Kings 8:1 it likewise presents Solomon's assembly of Israel's leaders as the ensuing action; 2 Chronicles 24:17 places the king's listening after the rulers came and bowed down.
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Result following a condition · common
In conditional clauses, the adverb points to the outcome that follows the stated requirement or circumstance. Exodus 12:44 places eating after circumcision, while 1 Samuel 6:3 sets healing after the required return of a guilt offering; 2 Kings 13:19 contrasts the result of striking five or six times with the limited result that follows instead.
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Time setting within a scene · occasional
The adverb can locate a person, people, or event at the time under discussion rather than advance the action. Genesis 12:6 and Genesis 13:7 describe inhabitants who were in the land at that time, and 2 Samuel 23:14 places David in the stronghold and a Philistine garrison at Bethlehem in the same temporal setting.
In the Anselm Paraphrase: The APB commonly presents the temporal transition with “Then,” especially in narrative and conditional clauses. In setting clauses it also uses “then” or “at that time”; because the paraphrase is not word-aligned, these renderings only reflect the clauses' overall temporal relation.