Definition

to seclude; specifically (by a ban) to devote to religious uses (especially destruction); physical and reflexive, to be blunt as to the nose

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• make accursed
• consecrate
• (utterly) destroy
• devote
• forfeit
• have a flat nose
• utterly (slay
• make away)

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.