Definition

a setting under (support), i.e. (figuratively) concretely, essence, or abstractly, assurance (objectively or subjectively)

Etymology

from a compound of G5259 (ὑπό) and G2476 (ἵστημι);

Where the KJV renders it

• confidence
• confident
• person
• substance

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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