Definition

properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of astream; also a strong thing or a hero

Etymology

from H622 (אָסַף);

Where the KJV renders it

• brook
• channel
• mighty
• river
• scale
• stream
• strong piece

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.