Definition

a session, i.e. company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret

Etymology

from H3245 (יָסַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• assembly
• consel
• inward
• secret (counsel)

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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