Definition

to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• describe
• record
• prescribe
• subscribe
• write(-ing
• -ten)

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.