Definition

to lead up; by extension to bring out; specially, to sail away

Etymology

from G303 (ἀνά) and G71 (ἄγω);

Where the KJV renders it

• bring (again
• forth
• up again)
• depart
• launch (forth)
• lead (up)
• loose
• offer
• sail
• set forth
• take up

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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