Definition

properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally ayear; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)

Etymology

or מֹעֵד; or (feminine) מוֹעָדָה; (2 Chronicles 8:13), from H3259 (יָעַד);

Where the KJV renders it

• appointed (sign
• time)
• (place of
• solemn) assembly
• congregation
• (set
• solemn) feast
• (appointed
• due) season
• solemn(-ity)
• synogogue
• (set) time (appointed)

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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