Definition

disjunctive, or; comparative, than

Etymology

a primary particle of distinction between two connected terms;

Where the KJV renders it

• and
• but (either)
• (n-)either
• except it be
• (n-)or (else)
• rather
• save
• than
• that
• what
• yea

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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.