Definition

properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)

Etymology

from the same as H4397 (מֲלְאָךְ);

Where the KJV renders it

• business
• cattle
• industrious
• occupation
• ( -pied)
• officer
• thing (made)
• use
• (manner of) work((-man)
• -manship)

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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