Definition

to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• consult
• indeed
• be (make
• set a
• set up) king
• be (make) queen
• (begin to
• make to) reign(-ing)
• rule
• surely

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.