Definition

(in a good sense) transport (with love), or (in a bad sense) stultify; to make cakes

Etymology

a primitive root; properly, to be enclosed (as if with fat); by implication (as denominative from H3824 (לֵבָב)); to unheart; also as denominative from H3834 (לָבִיבָה) i.e.

Where the KJV renders it

• make cakes
• ravish
• be wise

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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