Definition

who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix

Etymology

an interrogative pronoun of persons, as H4100 (מָה) is of things,

Where the KJV renders it

• any (man)
• he
• him
• O that! what
• which
• who(-m
• -se
• -soever)
• would to God

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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