Definition

to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• disgrace
• dishounour
• lightly esteem
• fade (away
• -ing)
• fall (down
• -ling
• off)
• do foolishly
• come to nought
• surely
• make vile
• wither

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.