Strong’s H5749 · Hebrew

עוּד
ʻûwd
ood

Definition

to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • admonish
  • charge
  • earnestly
  • lift up
  • protest
  • call (take) to record
  • relieve
  • rob
  • solemnly
  • stand upright
  • testify
  • give warning
  • (bear
  • call to
  • give
  • take to) witness

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.