Definition

'To die for the son', probably the title of a popular song

Etymology

(Psalm H48 (אֲבִירָם) or מוּת לַבֵּן; from H4191 (מוּת) and H1121 (בֵּן) with the preposition and article interposed;

Where the KJV renders it

• death
• Muthlabben

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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