Definition

to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• afternoon
• apply
• bow (down
• -ing)
• carry aside
• decline
• deliver
• extend
• go down
• be gone
• incline
• intend
• lay
• let down
• offer
• outstretched
• overthrown
• pervert
• pitch
• prolong
• put away
• shew
• spread (out)
• stretch (forth
• out)
• take (aside)
• turn (aside
• away)
• wrest
• cause to yield

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.