Definition

literally, to load up (on the back of man or beast), i.e. to start early in the morning

Etymology

a primitive root; properly, to incline (the shoulder to a burden); but used only as denominative from H7926 (שְׁכֶם);

Where the KJV renders it

• (arise
• be up
• get (oneself) up
• rise up) early (betimes)
• morning

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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