Definition

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• ((break
• build
• circumcise
• dig
• do anything
• do evil
• feed
• lay down
• lie down
• lodge
• make
• rejoice
• send
• take
• weep)) again
• (cause to) answer ( again)
• in any case (wise)
• at all
• averse
• bring (again
• back
• home again)
• call (to mind)
• carry again (back)
• cease
• certainly
• come again (back)
• consider
• continually
• convert
• deliver (again)
• deny
• draw back
• fetch home again
• fro
• get (oneself) (back) again
• give (again)
• go again (back
• home)
• (go) out
• hinder
• let
• (see) more
• needs
• be past
• pay
• pervert
• pull in again
• put (again
• up again)
• recall
• recompense
• recover
• refresh
• relieve
• render (again)
• requite
• rescue
• restore
• retrieve
• (cause to
• make to) return
• reverse
• reward
• say nay
• send back
• set again
• slide back
• still
• surely
• take back (off)
• make to) turn (again
• self again
• away
• back again
• backward
• from
• off)
• withdraw

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

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