Strong’s H5943 · Hebrew

עִלַּי
ʻillay
il-lah'-ee

Definition

supreme (i.e. God)

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5942 (עִלִּי);

Where the KJV renders it

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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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