Definition

(of time) until or (of place) up to

Etymology

akin to G206 (ἄκρον) (through the idea of a terminus);

Where the KJV renders it

• as far as
• for
• in(-to)
• till
• (even
• un-)to
• until
• while

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek 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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.