Definition

properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• clad self
• close
• clothe
• conceal
• cover (self)
• (flee to) hide
• overwhelm. Compare H3780 (כָּשָׂה)

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.