Definition

to be dumb or silent; hence, to fail or perish; trans. to destroy

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• cease
• be cut down (off)
• destroy
• be brought to silence
• be undone
• utterly

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.