Definition

Metheg-ha-Ammah, an epithet of Gath

Etymology

from H4964 (מֶתֶג) and H520 (אַמָּה) with the art. interposed; bit of the metropolis;

Where the KJV renders it

• Metheg-ammah

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.