Definition

elaborate braiding of the hair

Etymology

from G1707 (ἐμπλέκω);

Word family

• ἐμπλέκω emplékō

How the KJV renders it

• plaiting

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.