Definition

who or what (properly, interrogatively, hence, also indefinitely and relatively)

Etymology

(Aramaic) from H4101 (מָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• what
• who(-msoever
• -so)

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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