Definition

to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string abow (by treading on it in bending)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• archer
• bend
• come
• draw
• go (over)
• guide
• lead (forth)
• thresh
• tread (down)
• walk

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.