Strong’s H4995 · Hebrew
נָא
nâʼ
naw
Definition
properly, tough, i.e. uncooked (flesh)
Etymology
apparently from H5106 (נוּא) in the sense of harshness from refusal;
Where the KJV renders it
- raw
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.
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