Definition

to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bereave (from the margin)
• cast down
• be decayed
• (cause to) fail
• (cause
• make to) fall (down
• -ing)
• feeble
• be (the) ruin(-ed
• of)
• (be) overthrown
• (cause to) stumble
• utterly
• be weak

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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