Definition

pertaining to self, i.e. one's own; by implication, private or separate

Etymology

of uncertain affinity;

Where the KJV renders it

• X his acquaintance
• when they were alone
• apart
• aside
• due
• his (own
• proper
• several)
• home
• (her
• our
• thine
• your) own (business)
• private(-ly)
• severally
• their (own)

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.