Definition

to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• cast up (out)
• divorced (woman)
• drive away (forth
• out)
• expel
• surely put away
• trouble
• thrust out

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.