Strong’s H6050 · Hebrew
עֲנַן
ʻănan
an-an'
Definition
{a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud}
Etymology
(Aramaic) corresponding to H6051 (עָנָן)
Where the KJV renders it
- cloud
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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