Definition

by implication, an encampment or village

Etymology

properly, the same as H2332 (חַוָּה) (lifegiving, i.e. living-place);

Where the KJV renders it

• (small) town

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.