Strong’s H5115 · Hebrew

נָוָה
nâvâh
naw-vaw'

Definition

to rest (as at home); causatively (through the implied idea of beauty ), to celebrate (with praises)

Etymology

a primitive root; (compare H5116 (נָוֶה))

Where the KJV renders it

  • keept at home
  • prepare an habitation

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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