Definition

to announce upon (reflexively), i.e. (by implication) to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself

Etymology

from G1909 (ἐπί) and the base of G32 (ἄγγελος);

Where the KJV renders it

• profess
• (make) promise

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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