Definition

an occasion, i.e. set or proper time

Etymology

of uncertain affinity;

Where the KJV renders it

• X always
• opportunity
• (convenient
• due) season
• (due
• short
• while) time
• a while

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.