Definition

to polish; by implication, to make bald (the head), to gall (the shoulder); also, to sharpen

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bright
• furbish
• (have his) hair (be) fallen off
• peeled
• pluck off (hair)

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.