Definition

to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• blow
• breath
• give up
• cause to lose (life)
• seething
• snuff

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.