Definition

properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• dead
• destroy(-er)
• oppress
• robber
• spoil(-er)
• utterly
• (lay) waste

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.