Definition

to be (or make) clean (literally or figuratively); by implication (in an adverse sense) to be bare, i.e. extirpated

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• acquit at all
• altogether
• be blameless
• cleanse
• (be) clear(-ing)
• cut off
• be desolate
• be free
• be (hold) guiltless
• be (hold) innocent
• by no means
• be quit
• be (leave) unpunished
• utterly
• wholly

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.