Definition

difficult of explanation

Etymology

from G1418 (δυσ-) and a presumed derivative of G2059 (ἑρμηνεύω);

Where the KJV renders it

• hard to be uttered

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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