Definition

to braid, i.e. intermix; technically, to traffic (as if by barter); also or give to be security (as a kind of exchange)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• engage
• (inter-) meddle (with)
• mingle (self)
• mortgage
• occupy
• give pledges
• be(-come
• put in) surety
• undertake

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.