Definition

to turn off (literal or figurative)

Etymology

or שׂוּר; (Hosea 9:12), a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• be(-head)
• bring
• call back
• decline
• depart
• eschew
• get (you)
• go (aside)
• grievous
• lay away (by)
• leave undone
• be past
• pluck away
• put (away
• down)
• rebel
• remove (to and fro)
• revolt
• be sour
• take (away
• off)
• turn (aside
• away
• in)
• withdraw
• be without

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.