Definition

a word, command, discourse, or subject

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H4405 (מִלָּה);

Word family

• מִלָּה millâh

How the KJV renders it

• commandment
• matter
• thing. word

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.