Definition

to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• discourage
• faint
• be loosed
• melt (away)
• refuse
• utterly

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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