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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