Definition

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

Etymology

apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;

Where the KJV renders it

• abide
• + agree
• appoint
• X avenge
• + band together
• be
• bear
• + bewray
• bring (forth)
• cast out
• cause
• commit
• + content
• continue
• deal
• + without any delay
• (would) do(-ing)
• execute
• exercise
• fulfil
• gain
• give
• have
• hold
• X journeying
• keep
• + lay wait
• + lighten the ship
• make
• X mean
• + none of these things move me
• observe
• ordain
• perform
• provide
• + have purged
• purpose
• put
• + raising up
• X secure
• shew
• X shoot out
• spend
• take
• tarry
• + transgress the law
• work
• yield

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.