Definition

to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• become
• change
• come
• be converted
• give
• make (a bed)
• overthrow (-turn)
• perverse
• retire
• tumble
• turn (again
• aside
• back
• to the contrary
• every way)

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.