Definition

to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• banish
• bring
• cast down (out)
• chase
• compel
• draw away
• drive (away
• out
• quite)
• fetch a stroke
• force
• go away
• outcast
• thrust away (out)
• withdraw

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.