Definition

adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)

Etymology

from H6004 (עָמַם);

Where the KJV renders it

• accompanying
• against
• and
• as ( long as)
• before
• beside
• by (reason of)
• for all
• from (among
• between)
• in
• like
• more than
• of
• (un-) to
• with(-al)

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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