Definition

to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• make amazed
• be astonied
• (be an) astonish(-ment)
• (be
• bring into
• unto
• lay
• lie
• make) desolate(-ion
• places)
• be destitute
• destroy (self)
• (lay
• make) waste
• wonder

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.