Definition

a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow

Etymology

from H502 (אָלַף);

Where the KJV renders it

• family
• kine
• oxen

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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