Definition

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• at all
• crying
• (be) dead (body
• man
• one)
• (put to
• worthy of) death
• destroy(-er)
• (cause to
• be like to
• must) die
• kill
• necro(-mancer)
• must needs
• slay
• surely
• very suddenly
• in (no) wise

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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