Definition

bashfulness, i.e. (towards men), modesty or (towards God) awe

Etymology

perhaps from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G1492 (εἴδω) (through the idea of downcast eyes);

Where the KJV renders it

• reverence
• shamefacedness

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

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