Definition

compare the base of G1166 (δεικνύω)) of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem (truthfully or uncertainly)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary verb, (used only in an alternate in certain tenses;

Where the KJV renders it

• be accounted
• (of own) please(-ure)
• be of reputation
• seem (good)
• suppose
• think
• trow

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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