Definition

Lo-Debar, a place in Palestine

Etymology

or לוֹ דבַר; (Samuel 9:4,5), or לִדְבִר; (Joshua 13:26), (probably rather לֹדְבַר ); from H3808 (לֹא) and H1699 (דֹּבֶר); pastureless;

Where the KJV renders it

• Debir
• Lodebar

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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