Definition

figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop

Etymology

a primitive root to break off, i.e. (usually) plunder;

Where the KJV renders it

• (be) covet(-ous)
• cut (off)
• finish
• fulfill
• gain (greedily)
• get
• be given to (covetousness)
• greedy
• perform
• be wounded

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.