Definition

to contradict, i.e. disavow, reject, abnegate

Etymology

perhaps from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and the middle voice of G4483 (ῥέω);

Where the KJV renders it

• deny
• refuse

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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