Definition

properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach

Etymology

or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• ( ) archer
• cast
• direct
• inform
• instruct
• lay
• shew
• shoot
• teach(-er
• -ing)
• through

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.