Definition

these or those

Etymology

prolonged from H411 (אֵל);

Where the KJV renders it

• an-(the) other; one sort
• so
• some
• such
• them
• these (same)
• they
• this
• those
• thus
• which
• who(-m)

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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