Strong’s H4902 · Hebrew

מֶשֶׁךְ
Meshek
meh'-shek

Definition

Meshek, a son of Japheth, and the people descended from him

Etymology

the same in form as H4901 (מֶשֶׁךְ), but probably of foreign derivation;

Where the KJV renders it

  • Mesech
  • Meshech

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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