Definition

to throw (in various applications, more or less violent or intense)

Etymology

a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• arise
• cast (out)
• X dung
• lay
• lie
• pour
• put (up)
• send
• strike
• throw (down)
• thrust

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek 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.

What the first audience heard

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