Definition

to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• defer
• draw out
• lengthen
• (be
• become
• make
• pro-) long
• (out-
• over-) live
• tarry (long)

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.