Definition

the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ)) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons

Etymology

from the particle (perhaps akin to the base of G109 (ἀήρ) through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward);

Where the KJV renders it

• her
• it(-self)
• one
• the other
• (mine) own
• said
• (self-)
• the) same
• ((him-
• my-
• thy- )self
• (your-)selves
• she
• that
• their(-s)
• them(-selves)
• there(-at
• - by
• -in
• -into
• -of
• -on
• -with)
• they
• (these) things
• this (man)
• those
• together
• very
• which

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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