Definition

something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e. a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet

Etymology

from H5596 (סָפַח);

Where the KJV renders it

• (such) things as (which) grow (of themselves)
• which groweth of its own accord (itself)

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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