Definition

Maon, the name of an Israelite and of a place in Palestine

Etymology

the same as H4583 (מָעוֹן); a residence;

Where the KJV renders it

• Maon
• Maonites. Compare H1010 (בֵּית בַּעַל מְעוֹן)
• H4586 (מְעוּנִי)lemma מְעוּנָי third vowel
• corrected to מְעוּנִי

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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