Strong’s H1488 · Hebrew
גֵּז
gêz
gaze
Definition
a fleece (as shorn); also mown grass
Etymology
from H1494 (גַּזָז);
Where the KJV renders it
- fleece
- mowing
- mown grass
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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