Definition

properly, incisure or (passively) incised; hence, a threshing-sledge (with sharp teeth); also a slice (as cut)

Etymology

or חֲרִץ; from H2782 (חָרַץ); (compare H2742 (חֲרוּץ))

Where the KJV renders it

• cheese
• harrow

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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