Definition

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• alienate
• alter
• at all
• beyond
• bring (over
• through)
• carry over
• (over-) come (on
• over)
• conduct (over)
• convey over
• current
• deliver
• do away
• enter
• escape
• fail
• gender
• get over
• (make) go (away
• by
• forth
• his way
• in
• on
• over
• have away (more)
• lay
• meddle
• overrun
• make partition
• (cause to
• give
• make to
• over) pass(-age
• along
• away
• -enger
• out
• make) proclaim(-amation)
• perish
• provoke to anger
• put away
• rage
• raiser of taxes
• remove
• send over
• set apart
• shave
• cause to (make) sound
• speedily
• sweet smelling
• take (away)
• (make to) transgress(-or)
• translate
• turn away
• (way-) faring man
• be wrath

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.

What the first audience heard

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