Strong’s H4893 · Hebrew
מִשְׁחָת
mishchâth
mish-khawth'
Definition
disfigurement
Etymology
or מׇשְׁחָת; from H7843 (שָׁחַת);
Where the KJV renders it
- corruption
- marred
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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