Definition

as card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H2297 (חַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• a
• first
• one
• together

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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