Definition

a woman; specially, a wife

Etymology

probably from the base of G1096 (γίνομαι);

Word family

• γίνομαι gínomai

How the KJV renders it

• wife
• woman

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.