Strong’s H4425 · Hebrew

מְלִילָה
mᵉlîylâh
mel-ee-law'

Definition

a head of grain (as cut off)

Etymology

from H4449 (מְלַל) (in the sense of cropping (compare H4135 (מוּל)));

Where the KJV renders it

  • ear

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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