Definition

darkly flashing (only of the eyes); in a good sense, brilliant (as stimulated by wine)

Etymology

by reduplication from an unused root apparently meaning to be dark;

Where the KJV renders it

• red

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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