Strong’s H5628 · Hebrew

סָרַח
çârach
saw-rakh'

Definition

to extend (even to excess)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • exceeding
  • hand
  • spread
  • stretch self
  • banish

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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