Strong’s H4346 · Hebrew

מַכְבָּר
makbâr
mak-bawr'

Definition

a cloth (as netted)

Etymology

from H3527 (כָּבַר) in the sense of covering; (compare H4345 (מַכְבֵּר))

Where the KJV renders it

  • thick cloth

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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