Definition

the placing as a son, i.e. adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God)

Etymology

from a presumed compound of G5207 (υἱός) and a derivative of G5087 (τίθημι);

Where the KJV renders it

• adoption (of children
• of sons)

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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