Strong’s H4790 · Hebrew

מְרוֹחַ
mᵉrôwach
mer-o-akh'

Definition

bruised, i.e. emasculated

Etymology

from H4799 (מָרַח);

Where the KJV renders it

  • broken

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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