Definition

a missile (spear or arrow); also a quarry (whence stones are, as it were, ejected)

Etymology

from H5265 (נָסַע) in the sense of projecting;

Word family

• נָסַע nâçaʻ

How the KJV renders it

• before it was brought
• dart

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.