Definition

{a flag; also a sail; by implication, a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively, a token}

Etymology

apparently a contraction for H3678 (כִּסֵּא), but probably by erroneous transcription for H5251 (נֵס)

Where the KJV renders it

• sworn

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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