Definition

Ije-ha-Abarim, a place near Palestine

Etymology

from the plural of H5856 (עִי) and the plural of the active participle of H5674 (עָבַר) with the article interposed; ruins of the passers;

Where the KJV renders it

• Ije-abarim

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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