Definition

to set in a row, i.e. arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• put (set) (the battle
• self) in array
• compare
• direct
• equal
• esteem
• estimate
• expert (in war)
• furnish
• handle
• join (battle)
• ordain
• (lay
• put
• reckon up
• set) (in) order
• prepare
• tax
• value

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.