Definition

to cut down

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H1413 (גָּדַד);

Word family

• גָּדַד gâdad

How the KJV renders it

• hew down

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.