Definition

to awe or (intransitive) to dread; hence, to harass

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be affrighted (afraid
• dread
• feared
• terrified)
• break
• fear
• oppress
• prevail
• shake terribly

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.