Definition

properly, voluntary, i.e. generous; hence, magnanimous; as noun, a grandee (sometimes a tyrant)

Etymology

from H5068 (נָדַב);

Where the KJV renders it

• free
• liberal (things)
• noble
• prince
• willing (hearted)

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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