Definition

Chor-hag-Gidgad, a place in the Desert

Etymology

from H2356 (חוֹר) and a collateral (masculine) form of H1412 (גֻּדְגֹּדָה), with the article interposed; hole of the cleft;

Where the KJV renders it

• Hor-hagidgad

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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