Definition

properly, to pound, i.e. smite; by implication (as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• cast off
• drawn
• let fall
• forsake
• join (battle)
• leave (off)
• lie still
• loose
• spread (self) abroad
• stretch out
• suffer

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.