Definition

to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• compare
• devise
• (be) like(-n)
• mean
• think
• use similitudes

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.