Strong’s H3518 · Hebrew

כָּבָה
kâbâh
kaw-baw'

Definition

to expire or (causatively) to extinguish (fire, light, anger)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • go (put) out
  • quench

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

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