Definition

to be rabid (figuratively, insane); also (from the exhaustion of frenzy) to languish

Etymology

a primitive root meaning properly, to burn, i.e. (by implication)

Where the KJV renders it

• faint
• mad

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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