Strong’s H5473 · Hebrew

סוּג
çûwg
soog

Definition

to hem in, i.e. bind

Etymology

a primitive root (probably rather identical with H5472 (סוּג) through the idea of shrinking from a hedge; compare H7735 (שׂוּג));

Where the KJV renders it

  • set about

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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