Definition

to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• cleanse
• clear self
• (be
• do) just(-ice
• -ify
• -ify self)
• (be turn to) righteous(-ness)

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.