Definition

properly, to scrape out, but in certain peculiar senses (of removal or association)

Etymology

or שָׂפַח; (Isaiah 3:17), a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abiding
• gather together
• cleave
• smite with the scab

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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