Strong’s H404 · Hebrew

אָכַף
ʼâkaph
aw-kaf'

Definition

to urge

Etymology

a primitive root; apparently meaning to curve (as with a burden);

Where the KJV renders it

  • crave

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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