Definition

to lead up on, i.e. (technical) to put out (to sea); (intransitively) to return

Etymology

from G1909 (ἐπί) and G321 (ἀνάγω);

Where the KJV renders it

• launch (thrust) out
• return

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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