Definition

Beeroth-Bene-Jaakan, a place in the Desert

Etymology

from the feminine plural of H875 (בְּאֵר), and the plural contraction of H1121 (בֵּן), and H3292 (יַעֲקָן); wells of (the) sons of Jaakan;

Where the KJV renders it

• Beeroth of the children of Jaakan

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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