Definition

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abide
• apply
• attain
• be
• befall
• besiege
• bring (forth
• in
• into
• to pass)
• call
• carry
• certainly
• (cause
• let
• thing for) to come (against
• out
• upon
• depart
• doubtless again
• eat
• employ
• (cause to) enter (in
• -tering
• -trance
• -try)
• be fallen
• fetch
• follow
• get
• give
• go (down
• to war)
• grant
• have
• indeed
• (in-) vade
• lead
• lift (up)
• mention
• pull in
• put
• resort
• run (down)
• send
• set
• (well) stricken (in age)
• surely
• take (in)
• way

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.