Definition

properly, dirty, i.e. (by implication) obscure

Etymology

from (probably from a base akin to that of G109 (ἀήρ)) (dust, as dried by wind);

Word family

• ἀήρ aḗr

How the KJV renders it

• dark

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.