Definition

properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• acknowledge
• could
• deliver
• discern
• dissemble
• estrange
• feign self to be another
• know
• take knowledge (notice)
• perceive
• regard
• (have) respect
• behave (make) self strange(-ly)

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.