Definition

properly, keeping one's seat (sedentary), i.e. (by implication) still (undisturbed, undisturbing)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a compound probably of a derivative of the base of G1476 (ἑδραῖος) and perhaps G2192 (ἔχω);

Where the KJV renders it

• peaceable
• quiet

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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