Strong’s H4770 · Hebrew
מַרְבֵּק
marbêq
mar-bake'
Definition
a stall (for cattle)
Etymology
from an unused root meaning to tie up;
Where the KJV renders it
- fat(-ted)
- stall
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.
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