Definition

to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make ashow, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• (make) boast (self)
• celebrate
• commend
• (deal
• make)
• fool(-ish
• -ly)
• glory
• give (light)
• be (make
• feign self) mad (against)
• give in marriage
• (sing
• be worthy of) praise
• rage
• renowned
• shine

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.