Definition

properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• backslider
• drive
• go back
• turn (away
• back)

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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