Worship With Us Sunday School10 AM Sunday Morning11 AM Sunday Evening4 PM Thursday Night7 PM
1377 S 20th St, Louisville, KY 40210 Contact
True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Plain

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

75exact KJV occurrences 73Old Testament 2New Testament 22books containing the word 15mapped Strong's IDs 74occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 11:2

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Read in context →
LAST OCCURRENCE

Luke 6:17

And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

Read in context →
KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where plain appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6160
עֲרָבָה

ʻărâbâh · ar-aw-baw'

22 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea

Strong's KJV usage: Arabah, champaign, desert, evening, heaven, plain, wilderness. See also 1026.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 1:1Strong's last: Zechariah 14:10

Open full H6160 profile →
HebrewH4334
מִישׁוֹר

mîyshôwr · mee-shore'

14 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a level, i.e. a plain (often used (with the article prefix) as a proper name of certain districts); figuratively, concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) justice (sometimes adverbially, justly)

Strong's KJV usage: equity, even place, plain, right(-eously), (made) straight, uprightness.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:10Strong's last: Zechariah 4:7

Open full H4334 profile →
HebrewH3603
כִּכָּר

kikkâr · kik-kawr'

12 times translated as this KJV form68 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a circle, i.e. (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the Ghor or valley of the Jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or large [round] coin)

Strong's KJV usage: loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent.

Strong's first: Genesis 13:10Strong's last: Nehemiah 3:22

Open full H3603 profile →
HebrewH436
אֵלוֹן

ʼêlôwn · ay-lone'

7 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

an oak or other strong tree

Strong's KJV usage: plain. See also 356.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 12:6Strong's last: 1 Samuel 10:3

Open full H436 profile →
HebrewH1237
בִּקְעָה

biqʻâh · bik-aw'

7 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

properly, a split, i.e. a wide level valley between mountains

Strong's KJV usage: plain, valley.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Genesis 11:2Strong's last: Amos 1:5

Open full H1237 profile →
GreekG3723
ὀρθῶς

orthōs · or-thoce'

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

in a straight manner, i.e. (figuratively) correctly (also morally)

Strong's KJV usage: :--plain, right(-ly).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 7:35Strong's last: Mark 7:35

Open full G3723 profile →
GreekG3977
πεδινός

pedinós · ped-ee-nos'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

level (as easy for the feet)

Strong's KJV usage: :--plain.

Strong's first: Luke 6:17Strong's last: Luke 6:17

Open full G3977 profile →
HebrewH58
אָבֵל

ʼâbêl · aw-bale'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a meadow

Strong's KJV usage: plain. Compare also the proper names beginning with Abel-.

Strong's first: Judges 11:33Strong's last: Judges 11:33

Open full H58 profile →
HebrewH5228
נָכֹחַ

nâkôach · naw-ko'-akh

1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

a

straightforward, i.e. (figuratively), equitable, correct, or (abstractly), integrity

Strong's KJV usage: plain, right, uprightness.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Proverbs 8:9Strong's last: Proverbs 8:9

Open full H5228 profile →
HebrewH7737
שָׁוָה

shâvâh · shaw-vaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)

Strong's KJV usage: avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-) like, make plain, profit, reckon.

Strong's first: Isaiah 28:25Strong's last: Isaiah 28:25

Open full H7737 profile →

Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

Read the word in context.

75 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Nehemiah 6:2
H1237

That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Nehemiah 12:28
no direct Strong's tag

And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;

Psalms 27:11
H4334

Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

Proverbs 8:9
H5228

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

Proverbs 15:19
H5549

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

Isaiah 28:25
H7737

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Isaiah 40:4
H1237

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Jeremiah 17:26
H8219

And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 21:13
H4334

Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

Jeremiah 39:4
H6160

And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

Jeremiah 48:8
H4334

And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

Jeremiah 48:21
H4334

And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

Jeremiah 52:7
H6160

Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

Ezekiel 3:22
H1237

And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

Ezekiel 3:23
H1237

Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

Ezekiel 8:4
H1237

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

Daniel 3:1
H1236

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Amos 1:5
H1237

I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

Obadiah 1:19
H8219

And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

Habakkuk 2:2
H874

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Zechariah 4:7
H4334

Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

Zechariah 7:7
H8219

Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

Zechariah 14:10
H6160

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

Mark 7:35
G3723

And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Luke 6:17
G3977

And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

plain

PLAIN, a. [L. planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.]

1. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.2. Open; clear. Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.3. Void of ornament; simple; as a plain dress. Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.4. Artless; simple; unlearned; without disguise, cunning or affectation; without refinement; as men of the plainer sort.

Gen. 25.

Plain but pious christians--5. Artless; simple; unaffected; unembellished; as a plain tale or narration.6. Honestly undisguised; open; frank; sincere; unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth. Give me leave to be plain with you.7. Mere; bare; as a plain knave or fool.8. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument. It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.9. Not much varied by modulations; as a plain song or tune.

10. Not high seasoned; not rich; not luxuriously dressed; as a plain diet.

11. Not ornamented with figures; as plain muslin.

12. Not dyed.

13. Not difficult; not embarrassing; as a plain case in law.

14. Easily seen or discovered; not obscure or difficult to be found; as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Ps.27.

A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.

A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.

A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.

PLAIN, adv. Not obscurely; in a manner to be easily understood.

1. Distinctly; articulately; as, to speak plain. Mark 7.2. With simplicity; artlessly; bluntly.

PLAIN, n.

1. Level land; usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as all the plain of Jordan. Gen.13.2. Field of battle.

PLAIN, v.t. To level; to make plain or even on the surface.

PLAIN, v.i. [L. plango.] To lament or wail. [Not used.] [See Complain.]

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

SOURCE & METHOD

Know what each layer is—and what it is not.

KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.