Definition

properly, bound (with stripes), i.e. a weal (or black-and-blue mark itself)

Etymology

or חַבֻּרָה; or חֲבֻרָה; from H2266 (חָבַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• blueness
• bruise
• hurt
• stripe
• wound

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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