Definition

to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• at all
• defend
• deliver (self)
• escape
• without fail
• part
• pluck
• preserve
• recover
• rescue
• rid
• save
• spoil
• strip
• surely
• take (out)

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.