Definition

properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)

Etymology

from H2142 (זָכַר);

Word family

• זָכַר zâkar

How the KJV renders it

• him
• male
• man(child
• -kind)

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.