Definition

to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill

Etymology

or חֲרֵב; a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• decay
• (be) desolate
• destroy(-er)
• (be) dry (up)
• slay
• surely
• (lay
• lie
• make) waste

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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