Definition

to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• attain
• buy(-er)
• teach to keep cattle
• get
• provoke to jealousy
• possess(-or)
• purchase
• recover
• redeem
• surely
• verily

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.