Definition

to shoe, i.e. (active participle) a soldier shod

Etymology

a primitive root; to be miry; used only as denominative from H5430 (סְאוֹן);

Where the KJV renders it

• warrior

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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