Definition

pregnant

Etymology

or הָרִי; (Hosea 14:1), from H2029 (הָרָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• (be
• woman) with child
• conceive
• great

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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