Definition

smaller (in size, quantity, age or quality)

Etymology

comparative of the same as G1646 (ἐλάχιστος);

Where the KJV renders it

• less
• under
• worse
• younger

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.