Definition

to stout it through, i.e. asservate

Etymology

from G1223 (διά) and a derivative of G2478 (ἰσχυρός);

Where the KJV renders it

• confidently (constantly) affirm

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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