Definition

Atroth-Shophan, a place in Palestine

Etymology

from the same as H5852 (עֲטָרוֹת) and a name otherwise unused (being from the same as H8226 (שָׂפַן)) meaning hidden; crowns of Shophan;

Where the KJV renders it

• Atroth
• Shophan (as if two places)

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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