Definition

properly, to boil up; hence, to be done in cooking; figuratively to ripen

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bake
• boil
• bring forth
• roast
• seethe
• sod (be sodden)

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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