Strong’s H678 · Hebrew

אָצִיל
ʼâtsîyl
aw-tseel'

Definition

an extremity (Isaiah 41:9), also a noble

Etymology

from H680 (אָצַל) (in its secondary sense of separation);

Where the KJV renders it

  • chief man
  • noble

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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