Definition

to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• deal deceitfully (treacherously
• unfaithfully)
• offend
• transgress(-or)
• (depart)
• treacherous (dealer
• -ly
• man)
• unfaithful(-ly
• very

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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