Definition

to shudder with terror; hence, to fear; also to hasten (with anxiety)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be (make) afraid
• be careful
• discomfit
• fray (away)
• quake
• tremble

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.