Strong’s H3526 · Hebrew

כָּבַס
kâbaç
kaw-bas'

Definition

to trample; hence, to wash (properly, by stamping with the feet), whether literal (including the fulling process) or figurative

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • fuller
  • wash(-ing)

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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