Definition

to approach; hence, to meet in various senses

Etymology

a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with H578 (אָנָה) through the idea of contraction in anguish);

Where the KJV renders it

• befall
• deliver
• happen
• seek a quarrel

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.