Strong’s H4380 · Hebrew

מְכֵרָה
mᵉkêrâh
mek-ay-raw'

Definition

a sword

Etymology

probably from the same as H3564 (כּוּר) in the sense of stabbing;

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • habitation

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.