Strong’s H249 · Hebrew

אֶזְרָח
ʼezrâch
ez-rawkh'

Definition

a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)

Etymology

from H2224 (זָרַח) (in the sense of springing up);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • bay tree
  • (home-) born (in the land)
  • of the (one's own) country (nation)

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.