Definition

to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bind
• fast
• gird
• harness
• hold
• keep
• make ready
• order
• prepare
• prison(-er)
• put in bonds
• set in array
• tie

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

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.