Definition

self (in some oblique case or reflexively, relation)

Etymology

contracted for G1438 (ἑαυτοῦ);

Where the KJV renders it

• her (own)
• (of) him(-self)
• his (own)
• of it
• thee
• their (own)
• them(-selves)
• they

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.