Definition

to pour out, i.e. to empty, figuratively, to depopulate; by analogy, to spread out (as a fruitful vine)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (make) empty (out)
• fail
• utterly
• make void

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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