Strong’s H810 · Hebrew

אֶשֶׁךְ
ʼeshek
eh'-shek

Definition

a testicle (as a lump)

Etymology

from an unused root (probably meaning to bunch together);

Where the KJV renders it

  • stone

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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