Definition

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• answer
• appoint
• bid
• command
• commune
• declare
• destroy
• give
• name
• promise
• pronounce
• rehearse
• say
• speak
• be spokesman
• subdue
• talk
• teach
• tell
• think
• use (entreaties)
• utter
• well
• work

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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