Definition

to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (make
• put) difference
• divide (asunder)
• (make) separate (self
• -ation)
• sever (out)
• utterly

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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