Definition

a cause (as if asked for), i.e. (logical) reason (motive, matter), (legal) crime (alleged or proved)

Etymology

from the same as G154 (αἰτέω);

Where the KJV renders it

• accusation
• case
• cause
• crime
• fault
• (wh-)ere(-fore)

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.