Definition

to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• appoint
• at all
• avenge
• bestow
• (appoint to have the
• give a) charge
• commit
• count
• deliver to keep
• be empty
• enjoin
• go see
• hurt
• do judgment
• lack
• lay up
• look
• make
• by any means
• miss
• number
• officer
• (make) overseer
• have (the) oversight
• punish
• reckon
• (call to) remember(-brance)
• set (over)
• sum
• surely
• visit
• want

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.