Definition

to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• abroad
• (make a) breach
• break (away
• down
• -er
• forth
• in
• up)
• burst out
• come (spread) abroad
• compel
• disperse
• grow
• increase
• open
• press
• scatter
• urge

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.