Strong’s H1895 · Hebrew

הָבַר
hâbar
haw-bar'

Definition

to be a horoscopist

Etymology

a primitive root of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation;

Where the KJV renders it

  • (astro-) loger

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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