Definition

properly, to pale, i.e. by implication to be ashamed; also (by implication) to be disappointed or delayed

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (be
• make
• bring to
• cause
• put to
• with
• a-) shamed(-d)
• be (put to) confounded(-fusion)
• become dry
• delay
• be long

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.