Definition

to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be affrighted
• bar
• (catch
• lay
• take) hold (back)
• come upon
• fasten
• handle
• portion
• (get
• have or take) possess(-ion)

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.