Definition

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• assemble
• bring
• consume
• destroy
• felch
• gather (in
• together
• up again)
• generally
• get (him)
• lose
• put all together
• receive
• recover (another from leprosy)
• (be) rereward
• surely
• take (away
• into
• up)
• utterly
• withdraw

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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