Definition

so also neuter present participle of the same (with or without some form of G1510 (εἰμί) expressed); impersonally, it is right (through the figurative idea of being out in public)

Etymology

third person singular present indicative of a compound of G1537 (ἐκ) and G1510 (εἰμί);

Where the KJV renders it

• be lawful
• let
• X may(-est)

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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