Strong’s H2337 · Hebrew

חָוָח
châvâch
khaw-vawkh'

Definition

a dell or crevice (as if pierced in the earth)

Etymology

perhaps the same as H2336 (חוֹחַ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • thicket

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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