Definition

to render unapparent, i.e. (actively) consume (becloud), or (passively) disappear (be destroyed)

Etymology

from G852 (ἀφανής);

Where the KJV renders it

• corrupt
• disfigure
• perish
• vanish away

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.