Strong’s H3926 · Hebrew
לְמוֹ
lᵉmôw
lem-o'
Definition
to or for
Etymology
a prolonged and separable form of the prepositional prefix;
Where the KJV renders it
- at
- for
- to
- upon
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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