Strong’s H4637 · Hebrew

מַעֲרָצָה
maʻărâtsâh
mah-ar-aw-tsaw'

Definition

violence

Etymology

from H6206 (עָרַץ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • terror

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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