Definition

to till the soil

Etymology

a root probably identical with that of H5216 (נִיר), through the idea of the gleam of a fresh furrow;

Word family

• נִיר nîyr

How the KJV renders it

• break up

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.