Definition

fatherless, i.e. of unrecorded paternity

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G3962 (πατήρ);

Word family

• Α A
• πατήρ patḗr

How the KJV renders it

• without father

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.