Definition

scoria

Etymology

or סוּג; (Ezekiel 22:18), from H5472 (סוּג) in the sense of refuse;

Where the KJV renders it

• dross

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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