Strong’s H4364 · Hebrew

מַכְמָר
makmâr
mak-mawr'

Definition

a (hunter's) net (as dark from concealment)

Etymology

or מִכְמֹר; from H3648 (כָּמַר) in the sense of blackening by heat;

Where the KJV renders it

  • net

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.