Definition

"off," i.e. away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative)

Etymology

a primary particle;

Where the KJV renders it

• (X here-)after
• ago
• at
• because of
• before
• by (the space of)
• for(-th)
• from
• in
• (out) of
• off
• (up-)on(-ce)
• since
• with

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.