Definition

to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• make bright
• choice
• chosen
• cleanse (be clean)
• clearly
• polished
• (shew self) pure(-ify)
• purge (out)

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.