Definition

privilege, i.e. (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence

Etymology

from G1832 (ἔξεστι) (in the sense of ability);

Where the KJV renders it

• authority
• jurisdiction
• liberty
• power
• right
• strength

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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