Definition

to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a variety of applications, directly or otherwise)

Etymology

akin to the base of G2753 (κελεύω);

Where the KJV renders it

• bid
• call (forth)
• (whose
• whose sur-)name (was (called))

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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