Definition

properly, to live; by implication (intensively) to declare or show

Etymology

a primitive root; (compare H2324 (חֲוָא), H2421 (חָיָה));

Where the KJV renders it

• show

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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