Definition

Eben-ha-Ezer, a place in Palestine

Etymology

from H68 (אֶבֶן) and H5828 (עֵזֶר) with the article inserted; stone of the help;

Where the KJV renders it

• Ebenezer

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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