Definition

properly, covered, i.e. secret; by implication, incantation; also secrecy or (adverb) covertly

Etymology

a form of H3814 (לָאט) or else participle from H3874 (לוּט);

Where the KJV renders it

• enchantment
• privily
• secretly
• softly

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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