Definition

a mother-thresher, i.e. matricide

Etymology

from G3384 (μήτηρ) and the base of G257 (ἅλων);

Where the KJV renders it

• murderer of mothers

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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