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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