Definition

properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e. (by implication) best of the booty

Etymology

from G206 (ἄκρον) and (a heap);

Where the KJV renders it

• spoils

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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