Definition

to restrict, by act (hold back or in) or word (prohibit)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• finish
• forbid
• keep (back)
• refrain
• restrain
• retain
• shut up
• be stayed
• withhold

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.