Definition

to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)

Etymology

a primitive root; to clip off; specifically (as denominative from H1210 (בָּצִיר))

Where the KJV renders it

• cut off
• (de-) fenced
• fortify
• (grape) gather(-er)
• mighty things
• restrain
• strong
• wall (up)
• withhold

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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