Definition

properly, to adhere to; hence, to await

Etymology

a primitive root (apparently akin to H2707 (חָקָה) through the idea of piercing);

Where the KJV renders it

• long
• tarry
• wait

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.