Definition

to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• batter
• cast off
• corrupt(-er
• thing)
• destroy(-er
• -uction)
• lose
• mar
• perish
• spill
• spoiler
• utterly
• waste(-r)

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.