Definition

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• accomplish
• advance
• appoint
• apt
• be at
• become
• bear
• bestow
• bring forth
• bruise
• be busy
• certainly
• have the charge of
• commit
• deal (with)
• deck
• displease
• do
• (ready) dress(-ed)
• (put in) execute(-ion)
• exercise
• fashion
• feast
• (fight-) ing man
• finish
• fit
• fly
• follow
• fulfill
• furnish
• gather
• get
• go about
• govern
• grant
• great
• hinder
• hold (a feast)
• indeed
• be industrious
• journey
• keep
• labour
• maintain
• make
• be meet
• observe
• be occupied
• offer
• officer
• pare
• bring (come) to pass
• perform
• pracise
• prepare
• procure
• provide
• put
• requite
• sacrifice
• serve
• set
• shew
• sin
• spend
• surely
• take
• thoroughly
• trim
• very
• vex
• be (warr-) ior
• work(-man)
• yield
• use

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

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