Definition

to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abhor
• cast away (off)
• contemn
• despise
• disdain
• (become) loathe(some)
• melt away
• refuse
• reject
• reprobate
• utterly
• vile person

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.