Definition

to nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bemoan
• flee
• get
• mourn
• make to move
• take pity
• remove
• shake
• skip for joy
• be sorry
• vagabond
• way
• wandering

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.