Definition

to say (used with great latitude)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• answer
• appoint
• avouch
• bid
• boast self
• call
• certify
• challenge
• charge
• (at the
• give) command(-ment)
• commune
• consider
• declare
• demand
• desire
• determine
• expressly
• indeed
• intend
• name
• plainly
• promise
• publish
• report
• require
• say
• speak (against
• of)
• still
• suppose
• talk
• tell
• term
• that is
• think
• use (speech)
• utter
• verily
• yet

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.