Definition

properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abolish
• alter
• change
• cut off
• go on forward
• grow up
• be over
• pass (away
• on
• through)
• renew
• sprout
• strike through

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.