Definition

to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• accomplish
• cease
• consume (away)
• determine
• destroy (utterly)
• be (when... were) done
• (be an) end (of)
• expire
• (cause to) fail
• faint
• finish
• fulfil
• fully
• have
• leave (off)
• long
• bring to pass
• wholly reap
• make clean riddance
• spend
• quite take away
• waste

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.