Definition

to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• draw (along
• out)
• continue
• defer
• extend
• forbear
• give
• handle
• make (pro-
• sound) long
• sow
• scatter
• stretch out

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.