Definition

to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver

Etymology

a primitive root; also interchangeable for H2820 (חָשַׂךְ)

Where the KJV renders it

• have a delight
• (have a) desire
• fillet
• long
• set (in) love

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.