la.hen is a conjunction marking a limiting relation, especially where an exception is stated.

The attested conjunction marks a limiting or exceptional relation within a clause: Daniel 2:11 and Daniel 3:28 set the stated gods or God over against every other possibility. Its precise English expression is not consistently isolable from the translation in the remaining verses.

1. Conjunction marking an exception or limitation · dominant

   All supplied tokens are tagged as conjunctions. In Daniel 2:11 the APB renders a clause excluding every possible declarer before the king except the gods, and in Daniel 3:28 it renders the refusal to serve or worship any god except their own God; these clauses show a limiting relation rather than a standalone lexical item. Other occurrences stand in broader clause connections, such as Daniel 2:30 and Ezra 5:12, where the translation’s wording does not identify a one-to-one English equivalent.

   Daniel 2:11Daniel 2:30Daniel 3:28Daniel 4:24Daniel 6:13Ezra 5:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly includes "except" in Daniel 2:11 and Daniel 3:28. Elsewhere it presents connected clauses with wording such as "but" or without an evident separate equivalent; Those English connectives cannot be assigned to the conjunction with certainty.