Definition

to go away, hence, to disappear

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• fail
• gad about
• go to and fro (but in Ezekiel 27:19 the word is rendered by many 'from Uzal
• ' by others 'yarn')
• be gone (spent)

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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