Definition

to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• appear
• break forth
• draw (out)
• let go free
• (en-) grave(-n)
• loose (self)
• (be
• be set) open(-ing)
• put off
• ungird
• unstop
• have vent

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.