Strong’s H58 · Hebrew
אָבֵל
ʼâbêl
aw-bale'
Definition
a meadow
Etymology
from an unused root (meaning to be grassy);
Where the KJV renders it
- plain. Compare also the proper names beginning with Abel-
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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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