Definition

to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• appoint
• bid
• consecrate
• dedicate
• defile
• hallow
• (be
• keep) holy(-er
• place)
• keep
• prepare
• proclaim
• purify
• sanctify(-ied one
• self)
• wholly

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.