Strong’s H4071 · Hebrew

מְדוּרָה
mᵉdûwrâh
med-oo-raw'

Definition

a pile of fuel

Etymology

or מְדֻרָה; from H1752 (דּוּר) in the sense of accumulation;

Where the KJV renders it

  • pile (for fire)

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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