Definition

Etymology

of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, G5561 (χώρα) being implied)

Where the KJV renders it

• desert
• desolate
• solitary
• wilderness

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.