OFTEN

of'-n (puknos, "thick," "close"): An archaic usage for "frequent": "Thine often infirmities" (1 Timothy 5:23); 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).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.