Strong’s H5926 · Hebrew
עִלֵּג
ʻillêg
il-layg'
Definition
stuttering
Etymology
from an unused root meaning to stutter;
Where the KJV renders it
- stammerer
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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