Definition

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• bear
• beget
• birth(-day)
• born
• (make to) bring forth (children
• young)
• bring up
• calve
• child
• come
• be delivered (of a child)
• time of delivery
• gender
• hatch
• labour
• (do the office of a) midwife
• declare pedigrees
• be the son of
• (woman in
• woman that) travail(-eth
• -ing woman)

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.