Definition

competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character)

Etymology

from ( or , akin to G2240 (ἥκω)) (to arrive);

Where the KJV renders it

• able
• + content
• enough
• good
• great
• large
• long (while)
• many
• meet
• much
• security
• sore
• sufficient
• worthy

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.