Strong’s H4141 · Hebrew

מוּסָב
mûwçâb
moo-sawb'

Definition

a turn, i.e. circuit (of a building)

Etymology

from H5437 (סָבַב);

Where the KJV renders it

  • winding about

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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