Definition

to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• cover
• destroy
• devour
• eat up
• be at end
• spend up
• swallow down (up)

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.