Definition

properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• commune
• (ac-) count; declare
• number
• penknife
• reckon
• scribe
• shew forth
• speak
• talk
• tell (out)
• writer

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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