Thursday, February 10, 2011

KJV Word of the Day: Messes

This is a truly bizarre sounding word because "mess" has such a different meaning now. I take the word from Gen 42.34: "And he took and sent messes unto them, from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs." The passage sounds funny reading it from a modern perspective. "Mess" then meant "a portion or serving of food."

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