Definition

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• accept
• bring
• buy
• carry away
• drawn
• fetch
• get
• infold
• many
• mingle
• place
• receive(-ing)
• reserve
• seize
• send for
• take (away
• -ing
• up)
• use
• win

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.