Strong’s H6185 · Hebrew

עֲרִירִי
ʻărîyrîy
ar-e-ree'

Definition

bare, i.e. destitute (of children)

Etymology

from H6209 (עָרַר);

Where the KJV renders it

  • childless

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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