Strong’s H4624 · Hebrew

מַעֲקֶה
maʻăqeh
mah-ak-eh'

Definition

a parapet

Etymology

from an unused root meaning to repress;

How the KJV renders it

  • battlement

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.