Definition

properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• break
• destroy(-uction)
• not escape
• fail
• lose
• (cause to
• make) perish
• spend
• and surely
• take
• be undone
• utterly
• be void of
• have no way to flee

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.