Definition

to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• array self
• be clad
• (put a) cover (-ing
• self)
• fill
• put on
• surely
• turn aside

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.