Definition

to start, spur or urge on, i.e. (reflexively) to dash or plunge

Etymology

from G3730 (ὁρμή);

Word family

• ὁρμή hormḗ

How the KJV renders it

• run (violently)
• rush

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek 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.