Definition

to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• adversary
• assault
• beset
• besiege
• bind (up)
• cast
• distress
• fashion
• fortify
• inclose
• lay siege
• put up in bags

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.