Strong’s H2003 · Hebrew
הָמָס
hâmâç
haw-mawce'
Definition
a dry twig or brushwood
Etymology
from an unused root apparently meaning to crackle;
Where the KJV renders it
- melting
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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