Definition

a wound; figuratively, carnage, also pestilence

Etymology

or (masculine) מַכֶּה; (plural only) from H5221 (נָכָה); a blow (in 2 Chronicles 2:10, of the flail); by implication,

Where the KJV renders it

• beaten
• blow
• plague
• slaughter
• smote
• sore
• stripe
• stroke
• wound(-ed)

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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