Definition

to act of oneself, i.e. (figuratively) dominate

Etymology

from a compound of G846 (αὐτός) and an obsolete (a worker);

Word family

• αὐτός autós

How the KJV renders it

• usurp authority over

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.