To distract
פּוּןStrong’s H6323pun
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Pun is the Hebrew word usually translated “am perplexed”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to be perplexed, be distractedmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- i am perplexed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
פּוּן pun · to distract
1) (Qal) to be perplexed, be distracted 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distract” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTRACT, verb transitive
[Latin, to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]
- Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate.
- To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, towards another point or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention.
- To draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor.“While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted” Psalms 88:15
- To disorder the reason; the derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.
All definitions and other forms of “distract”
DISTRACT, adjective
Mad. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.