Strong’s H502 · Hebrew

אָלַף
ʼâlaph
aw-lof'

Definition

hence, to learn (and causatively to teach)

Etymology

a primitive root, to associate with;

Where the KJV renders it

  • learn
  • teach
  • utter

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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