Definition

to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)

Etymology

a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as H4184 (מוּשׁ) through the idea of receding by contact);

Word family

• מוּשׁ mûwsh

How the KJV renders it

• cease
• depart
• go back
• remove
• take away

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.