Definition

to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• at all
• sell (away
• -er
• self)

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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