Definition

a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)

Etymology

or מֹצָאxlit môtsâ corrected to môtsâʼ; from H3318 (יָצָא);

Where the KJV renders it

• brought out
• bud
• that which came out
• east
• going forth
• goings out
• that which (thing that) is gone out
• outgoing
• proceeded out
• spring
• vein
• (water-) course (springs)

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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